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Old 04-12-2007
Finding out process id in a scipt
Hi,

If in a shell script i write a command

ls > bla &
ls

The output is redirected to bla and the next ls starts as first one is going on in background.

I want to find the PID of the first command.

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 04-12-2007
Code:
ls > bla &
echo $!

Cheers
ZB
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Old 04-12-2007
Great,

I was looking for just that thing.

Thanks a lot. Smilie
 
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