i want to save the PID of a background process and save it to a file along with the process name in linux.
What is the command to do so?
Can anybody help me out?
i want to save the PID of a background process and save it to
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i want to save the PID of a background process and save it to a file along with the process name in linux.
What is the command to do so?
Can anybody help me out?
I am not sure what you call the “process name” but in Bourne shells you get the PID of a background process with the shell variable
$!. For example: