[ale] Silly bash question

[Jerald Sheets]

I was going to recommend "screen" as well.  VERY elegant way to manage many
things.


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Jerald M. Sheets jr.


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Mills John M-NPHW64
<Jmills at motorola.com>wrote:

> James -
>
> Exactly what I had in mind. Thanks.
>
>  - Mills
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of James Sumners
> Sent: Wed 11/11/2009 11:25 AM
> To: John Mills; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] Silly bash question
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> yes > /dev/null &
> yesPID=$!
>
> tail -f /var/log/messages &
> tailPID = $!
>
> echo "PID of yes process:"
> echo $yesPID
>
> echo "PID of tail process:"
> echo $tailPID
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net>
> wrote:
> > ALErs -
> >
> > I want to write a bash script to launch several processes into background
> > without waiting for them to exit, and return a list of their PIDs.
> >
> > Must be simple but I keep stumbling on this.
> >
> > Actually PERL would be OK, too.
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> >  - Mills
>
>
>
> --
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