[ale] PID

[Geoffrey]

Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am missing something trivial.
> how to get pid of a launched process under sunos5.8?
> 
> pid = `find / -name a.out & $!`

find does not return it's pid value.


> 
> or
>  
> find / -name a.out & $! > find.pid

this will not do either.

If you're running a process in the background, it's pid value is set in 
the $! variable, so do the following:

find / -name a.out &

echo $!


> 
> but something is not right. Process never gets put into background. and I
> never get the pid back :(
> I guess I need more coffee...
> 
> Tomas
> 
> 
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