Redirecting stdout on background task

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello,

I have a script (videostream.sh) which invokes the GStreamer command-line tool gst-launch with all the correct command line parameters. When I invoke this program, I add the '&' character at the end to make it a background task, so that my script can complete and exit, i.e.

gst-launch .... &

When I look at the process list, gst-launch appears correctly.

 1211 ttyS2    00:00:01 gst-launch-0.10
 1227 ttyS2    00:00:00 ps

However, when invoked, the gst-launch program spits out some information on stdout which I need to capture in my script before exiting. I thought I could just redirect the output to a file (actually, i'm using a named-pipe), like this...

gst-launch .... >gstpipe &

Unfortuantely, whilst the stdout information does indeed appear in the gstpipe file, the process list doesn't show gst-launch anymore, but the original script instead. I.e.

 1414 ttyS2    00:00:00 videostream.sh
 1438 ttyS2    00:00:00 ps

This appears in the process list, even after my script has exited, indicating that when invoking gst-launch, the shell is creating a new process, but with the wrong name.

What am I doing wrong here??

Thanks for any help,
Regards
salukibob

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you cannot see process list because of `...>pipe` command cause this process to wait.Therefore you can see only videostream.sh and not gst-launch.

gst-launch .... >gstpipe &

if you try to read from the pipe with another process then you can see gst-launch process.

# tail -f mypipe & ps -ef|grep gst

regards
ygemici