How to know PID of the process ran by remote ssh

Question

If I run a process at the remote site by using ssh as follows:

nohup ssh remote sleep 100 &

Is there a way to know the PID of sleep at remote? Trying echo $! just returns the PID of ssh at local. And, greping won't work since there are multiple sleep processes at remote.

Basile Starynkevitch · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-18 06:02:30Z

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You could pass a string to ssh so try

 nohup ssh remote 'sleep 100 &; echo $!'

answered Dec 18, 2013 at 6:02

Basile Starynkevitch

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jaeyong Over a year ago

Thanks! Little bit more what I want is nohup ssh remote 'sleep 100 & echo $!' &

Mitesh Pathak · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-18 06:11:58Z

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Try the following

 nohup ssh remote 'sleep 100 > out 2> err < /dev/null & echo $!'

edited Dec 18, 2013 at 6:11

answered Dec 18, 2013 at 6:03

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Basile Starynkevitch Over a year ago

Which does not answer the question, given that the OP told us: "there are multiple sleep processes at remote."

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