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From: Felix-Antoine Paradis <reel@sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: Shell Question
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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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