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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