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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I want to save pid of a child process but I get empty file.
su myuser -c "nohup ./mydaemon.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 & print $! > mydaemon.pid"
This one works:
nohup ./mydaemon.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 & print $! > mydaemon.pid
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Hi,
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