Child PID

2007-12-25 11:48:00

Thanks to:

Charles Brian Hill [brian@doodlabs.com]

Ernst-Gunar Ortlepp [ortlepp@dkrz.de]

Sam Nelson [Sam.Nelson@cs.stir.ac.uk]

Chang, Sam [sam.chang@gs.com]

mike.salehi@kodak.com

Paul LaMadeleine [plamadeleine@lightbridge.com]

The answer I needed was to:

If you're doing this in shell, and you're executing your command in the

background, $! will be set to the PID of the child process immediately

following its execution.

(for example)

#!/bin/sh

sleep 3600 &

sleep_pid=$!

echo $sleep_pid

?

Thanks!!

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Unix System Admin

mezzia e-business

Indianapolis, IN USA

Third Stone From The Sun

http://www.mezzia.com

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