How to get the PID of a process in a pipeline

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Just had the same issue. My solution:

process_1 | process_2 &
PID_OF_PROCESS_2=$!
PID_OF_PROCESS_1=`jobs -p`

Just make sure process_1 is the first background process. Otherwise, you need to parse the full output of jobs -l.

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