Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
inside my script s1.sh i am calling another script s2.sh
After s2.sh finishes, i want to print the process id of the s2.sh (that was used)
I can't use ps -ef command, since by this time s2.sh has already finished.
Is there a way to capture pid of s2.sh right when it's called?

I don't want to call s2.sh in the background, even if i did, by the time i use ps command to find the pid value, the s2.sh might have already finished in no time.

In windows script, the call to a process returns the associated pid immediately

Another question, how do i get the current pid without using the current process name?

Thanks,
-srinivas yelamanchili

No need to use ps,

use echo $!

this would give the pid of the last background process and there is no constraint that the background process should be executing while echo $! value is retrieved

thanks Madhan.

Now, i really don't want to run in background.
Also i want to get the pid and return code of the called process, once it's finished.

Thanks

use echo $? - for the return value -as returned by the process

Not very elegant, but should work.

In your s2.sh, save the return code of the process and append the process id to it as well or vice versa. Use then accordingly in the parent script.

Code:

ret_pid=$?"#"$$
exit ${ret_pid}

What are you going to do with the pid of a process *after* that process has finished?

As that pid is a candidate to get reused any time after the process was reaped.

I think it should be for some logging reasons.

something like
dumper process with pid:<> completed with status: <>

for these kind of information pid info becomes mandatory to fill in the logs