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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 03-28-2002

capture the process id when starting a background process

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Can you modify the source to the server? If so...

Can you modify the source to the server? If so just have it write its PID to a file somewhere.

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 03-28-2002

capture the process id when starting a background process

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If you use: ps -ef | grep "[i]oscan" | awk...

If you use:

ps -ef | grep "[i]oscan" | awk '{print $2}'

then you will not have to worry about capturing the PID of ps -- a handy side effect of using the square brackets.

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