Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:55:57 +0100 From: "John McLaughlin" <jmcl@ireland.com> To: Alex Boisvert <boisvert@exoffice.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PID of a forked process Message-ID: <200005160955.KAA53124@jmcl.gamesnow.ie>
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I've also used `jobs' under /bin/sh to do this as follows:
#!/bin/sh
some_command &
echo " some_command run "
job_pids `jobs`
echo ${job_pids} | awk -- '{ print $2; }' > /tmp/some_command.pid
kill -9 `cat /tmp/some_command.pid
Or I guess you could replace the last two lines with:
pid=`echo ${job_pids} | awk -- '{ print $2; }'`
kill -9 $pid
John
You wrote:
> 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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