I want to start process (eg. myCommand) and get its pid (to allow to kill it later).
I tried ps and filter by name, but I can not distinguish process by names
myCommand
ps ux | awk '/<myCommand>/ {print $2}'
Because processes names are not unique.
I can run process by:
myCommand &
I found that I can get this PID by:
echo $!
Is there any simpler solution?
I would be happy to execute myCommand and get its PID as a result of one line command.