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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Retrieving PID from a file Post 302141157 by appleforme1415 on Thursday 18th of October 2007 01:21:33 AM
Old 10-18-2007
Tried out the following

Code:
pidVar='cat pidFile'
echo $pidVar


Output i got is
Code:
cat pidFile

Kindly tell me way to get the content of the file by using the above command.

Badically file only contains PID.
 

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