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Old 06-06-2007, 04:44 AM   #1
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How to print my process id using shell script


i want to print the process id of the shell script which i executed.
in shell script , the symbol '$$' gives the process id of the bash running but not the shell script

if i have shell script named myShell.sh

and when i execute the command.

myShell.sh &

then i would get an output :
[1] 10234

which is the process id of the background.
Now i want to capture this process id so that i can kill this process later .
 
Old 06-06-2007, 05:09 AM   #2
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That would be "$!"
 
Old 06-06-2007, 09:45 AM   #3
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bash is a POSIX shell so this is what POSIX thinks about $!:

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$! Expands to the decimal process ID of the most recent background command
executed (as in a list) from the current shell.
(For example, background commands executed from subshells
do not affect the value of "$!" in the current shell environment.)
For a pipeline, the process ID is that of the last command in the pipeline.
 
Old 06-07-2007, 12:16 AM   #4
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we cannot use $!

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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
bash is a POSIX shell so this is what POSIX thinks about $!:
jim mcnamara is right. we cannot use $! as this the process ofthe bash running and not the
shell script which was running . if you try to print that value using the shell script and
try to execute that shell script in hte background you will find two different process id.


so i need different method for this .
 
Old 06-07-2007, 12:23 AM   #5
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thanks ill use $!

ill go for that . what i'll do is ill write another script to exececute my script and capture
its process id from this script.

thanks all
 
  


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