[NCLUG] Bashing lost children

Michael Dwyer mdwyer at sixthdimension.com
Wed Apr 10 09:33:44 MDT 2002


Wooooohooo!!  Thank you!  It is in the man page, too, but I was
searching for the word "PID".  I didn't think of searching for "process
ID"... sheesh.  Thanks again!

Tkil wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Dwyer <mdwyer at sixthdimension.com> writes:
> 
> Michael> Okay, so you know how the shell variable $$ stands for the
> Michael> PID of the shell?  Great.  Now, what if you want to keep
> Michael> track of the PID of a process that the shell spawns.
> 
> info '(bash)Special Parameters':
> 
> | `!'
> |      Expands to the process ID of the most recently executed
> |      background (asynchronous) command.



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