[lug] More script questions

[winrip]

  Is there a way to force a pid to a program?  Or how would one be able to
assign a pid to a variable at run time so that the pid is known to the script.

Example of what I'm doing, my program has two pids, and 

ps x|awk '/PROGRAM/ {print $1}' 

adds an extra pid for the awk statement, so I piped "head -2" to the end of the
statement and get the pids I need.  But, now I need both pids known to the
script and a test to make sure there are two pids. the conditional test
shouldn't be any trouble it's just the assigning of pids to variables that
gets me.  


Any ideas?
Thanks 
Bill