Capturing a PID.

[Craig White]

I would suspec that you would ps aux and pipe the output to grep for the
particular string and take the second word of the match to get the process
id

Craig

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Don
> Harrop
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 4:44 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Capturing a PID.
>
>
> Does anyone have ideas on how to capture the pid of a program
> into a file as it starts up?  When you execute your program with
> the "&" (background process) the shell spits out the process id
> but I can't seem to redirect that out put to a file.  I don't
> want to use "pidof" after the fact either in case there is
> another process running with the same name.
>
> Don
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