[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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