Re: pid of a script?

[Christian Jaeger]

At 11:30 Uhr +1030 18.02.2002, Tom Cook wrote:

until [ -z `ps ax | grep $SCRIPT_PID` ]

What about
 until kill -0 $SCRIPT_PID 2>/dev/null; do
?

(Or use perl, there you can use flock() on a lockfile, no need for pids.)

chj