PID is available in the system variable: $$
Thanks,
Jeff G. Victor Snesarev wrote:
Here's the situation... I start a process using cron, but I need to kill that process one hour later using cron. There doesn't seem to be a crontab option to run a command for a specified period of time. I suppose I could set an environment variable at the start of the process containing the process ID and an hour later use that environment variable as an argument to "kill", but I do not know a way to retrieve the process ID.
Would it be easy to parse "ps | grep <command_name>" or is there an better way to do this?
Any suggestions?
TIA, Victor
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