[Cialug] Starting two jobs at once

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> Right, I know about fg but then you're stuck with a daemon in the foreground and you need to ctrl+c it as well, right? I just want it to die (gracefully if possible). I can imagine in an upcoming project actually having three tasks, sass, mongodb and a python or js based web server. That means ctrl+c ctrl+c ctrl+c.
> 
> Zachary, echo $$ returns the PID of the last process started? I tried googling it but didn't get anything remotely helpful. :-)
> 
> If so, that might be the solution I'm looking for.
> 
> In psuedo code I could do something like:
> 
> launch-bg-process &
> p1pid=`echo $$`
> launch-fg-process
> kill $p1pid
> echo Have a nice day!
> 
> Does that look right?
> 


Alternate googling indicates I may want $!

launch-bg-process &
bg1pid=$!
launch-fg-process
kill $bg1pid
echo Have a nice day!

I'll give it a try!

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Matthew Nuzum
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