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I want to have a shell script like this:

my-app &
echo $my-app-pid

But I do not know how the get the pid of the just executed command.

I know I can just use the jobs -p my-app command to grep the pid. But if I want to execute the shell multiple times, this method will not work. Because the jobspec is ambiguous.

The PID of the last executed command is in the $! shell variable:

my-app &
echo $!

Get PID:

#!/bin/bash
my-app &
echo $!

Save PID in variable:

#!/bin/bash
my-app &
export APP_PID=$!

Save all instances PID in text file:

#!/bin/bash
my-app &
echo $! >>/tmp/my-app.pid

Save output, errors and PID in separated files:

#!/bin/bash
my-app >/tmp/my-app.log 2>/tmp/my-app.error.log &
echo $! >>/tmp/my-app.pid

echo "my-app PID's: $(cat /tmp/my-app.pid)"

Try something like

pidof my_app >> /tmp/my_app.pid

Try something like this:

 ps ef | grep "[m]y-app" | awk 'print $2'

Placing the first letter of your process between [ ] makes sure you do not get the grep process in your list. If needed you can also add a grep on your username.