Startup and shutdown script for a Java process on a *nix OS

startup_shutdown_java_process.sh

# startup.sh
#bin/bash

if [ ! -z $1 ] 
then
 mkdir -p ~/.[appname]
 nohup java -Xmx[heapsize] -jar -D[system-property]=$1 [appname].jar > [appname].log &
 ps -ef | grep java | grep [startup class] | awk '{print $2}' > ~/.[appname]/[appname].pid
else
 echo "startup failed, no [parameter] argument passed"
 exit 1
fi

# shutdown.sh
cat ~/.[appname]/[appname].pid | xargs kill