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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Problems with Job Control in csh
Message-ID: <86J8Z1w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 10 Apr 91 22:57:18 GMT
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pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Falstad) writes:
> xterm -e "foobar" &
> # ...
> kill -9 $!

Blech.  Here, try this:

TEMP=/tmp/$$.`whoami`
(xterm -e "foobar" &) 2>$TEMP
# ...
kill -9 `cat $TEMP`

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