Re: how to get pid when I start the process

[Bill Dennen <ieee1014@hotmail.com>]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:30:02 +0100, Zhang Weiwu scribbled:

> Hello. I usually start amuled and kill it after a few hours, I do such
> thing once a day. Usually I do it like this:
> 
> In one console:
> $ amuled
> 
> In another:
> 
> zhangweiwu@mesopotamia:~$ ps ax | grep mule 13595 zhangwei 14080 R N 
> amuled
> 13598 zhangwei 14080 S N  amuled
> 13600 zhangwei 14080 S N  amuled
> 13603 zhangwei 14080 S N  amuled
> 13612 zhangwei  1352 S    grep mule
> zhangweiwu@mesopotamia:~$ kill 13595
> 
> Note that I should always kill the least-numbered process, I tried
> otherwise and always end up in trouble.
> 
> Question is, how do I script-lize this? The only difficulty is to get
> the pid in script. I could use an one-liner awk script to analyses the
> output of ps, but that sounds overkill. Is there a better way?
> 
> Best. & Thanks in advance!

Is not the PID returned in $$ ??


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