Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:56:28 -0500 (EST) From: Felix-Antoine Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca> To: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@telerama.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Shell Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102152055300.19699-100000@idemnia.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102152040050.562-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>
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> How do I get the pid of the job I'm placing in the bg?
>
> The script is: mystuff {start|stop}
> In mystuff I bg a job by: my_script &
>
> How do I get the PID of my_script so that I can use
> it to kill the job when I: mystuff stop
>
> I'm looking for something like: PID=my_script &
Use:
PID_MY="`ps -U $USER |grep my_script |awk '{ print $1 }'`"
It will do the job
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