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Old 09-16-2002
capturing process id

I am newbie to unix shells world.
I am trying to capture a background process id into a file so that it can be killed later.

this process is basically a java program running in background as:
java TestApp &

this returning process id immediately. So how can i redirect that pid into a file. I am Red hat linux.
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Old 09-16-2002
BTW, whenever you have an initial question, please use the "SEARCH " function before posting. Thanks.

Here is a good post that addresses your problem that I found with search for "capture PID" as the search query.

https://www.unix.com/showthread.php?s...ht=capture+PID


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