Getting pid of a remote process

[Kurt Mueller]

srinivasan srinivas schrieb:
> Thanks a lot.
> But i am wondeing will it return correct pid if more than one instance of <scriptname> run on the remote machine??
> Thanks,
> Srini

On UNIX-like OS:

If you start the process in the background, you can
get the PID with:

<myhost>:~> ssh <remotehost> 'ls -l & echo PID=$!'  | grep PID
PID=30596
<myhost>:~>



see:
man bash
-> Special Parameters



Grüessli
-- 
Kurt Müller, mu at problemlos.ch