[streaming] Re: Controlling VLC

[Bill Eldridge]

Richard Ham wrote:

>>Benjamin PRACHT <bigben at via.ecp.fr> writes:
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>>>scripts languages  (such as  perl) allows  to get the  pid of  a
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>spawned
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>>i did something like this this weekend.
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>Stunning! Thats spot on for my needs!!!
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>If thats the quick version, I'd love to see the full script!! (Like an
>artist at work!)
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>Many thanks,
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>Richard
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In bash, I just do:

myprocess >& logerrs &
echo $! > /var/run/myprocess.pid

were $! is the pid of the just backgrounded process
$$ is the pid of the current process
Perl allows $PID as a synonym for $$

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