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Old May 17th, 2004, 04:10 PM
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Capturing process ID of app at launch
I'm trying to find a way from the shell to capture the process ID of an app as I launch it. I can't just launch it and then grep for processes with that app's name, because other copies of the app may already be running. I need a way to grab the ID as the app is launched. No one that I've talked to here at work can think of a way to do this.

Anyone have any ideas?
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they why not grep for processes with that app's name and get the one with the highest PID?

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You can also query PIDs from all apps invoked from the same shell with
jobs -l
the latest process will be the last of the list. Just add this line after you start every app instance.
Quote:
jobs -l | awk /+/'{print $2}'
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