Re: get PID for a process

From: Ed Morton (mortonAVOIDINGSPAM_at_Lucent.com)
Date: 08/07/03 

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:22:17 -0500

On 8/7/2003 5:28 AM, Willem Kossen wrote:
> "stephan beal" wrote in message
>
>
>>>I want my startup script to make a pid file for a process that does not
>>
> do
>
>>>so itself. How can i get the pid of the proces i just started?
>>
>>The $! variable holds the PID of the last-run app:
>>
>>stephan@cheyenne:~/> emacs &
>>[1] 20743
>>stephan@cheyenne:~/> echo $!
>>20743
>
>
> I know, but it doesn't seem to work from a shell-script and I'm not using &
> is there another way?

It does work from a shell script, but only for background processes. You could
do a "ps" and pipe it to grep or awk for your command name - post a version of
the script if you want better suggestions.

        Ed.

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