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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:45:19 -0700
From: Alex Boisvert <boisvert@exoffice.com>
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Subject: PID of a forked process
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Hello,

I have a basic BASH-related question.  How does one obtain the PID of a
forked process in bash?

Here's what I'd like to do:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
while test 1
do
  PID = some_long_process &
  sleep 60
  kill -9 PID
done

I'm going to use this script in a test framework where I need to test an
application for recoverability.  So I want to start the application,
wait for a given amount of time and then kill this application and
repeat.

So how to I obtain the PID of a process which is forked?  I've tried %%
but it didn't work.

regards,
alex.


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