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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: getting the pid from the csh
Message-ID: <402@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 21:18:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 21:18:44 1985
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: I know it's not what you asked, but in sh it's easy

ss@wanginst.UUCP (Sid Shapiro) writes:
> So I cheerfully set off to try and figure out how to capture the pid
> that is returned when you type foo&
> 
> Well, after I exhausted all the variations I could think of, I went to
> the csh sources.  It sure looked to me like the shell simply does a
> printf of the pid.  But I'll be darned if I can redirect...

In sh, on the other hand, you need only type:	(foo&) 2>foo.pid

Mark Brader