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Re: child_pid of background process? (not in manpage?)
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: child_pid of background process? (not in manpage?) |
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Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:42:36 -0400 |
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 05:53:03AM +0200, Chris Down wrote:
> On 2013-08-18 17:46, Linda Walsh wrote:
> > I don't find the variable for the process ID of the
> > last started background process documented in the bash manpage...
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> > Am I just missing it, or did it get left out by accident or
> > where did it go?
> > ! Expands to the process ID of the most recently executed
> > background (asynchronous) command.
A long time ago I submitted a patch that would change all of these to
include their $ so that people could SEARCH for them and FIND them,
but the patch was not accepted.