On Friday 17 April 2015 12:34:11 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 12:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...] > > Thanks for any clues. The bash manual, at around 500 pages, details > > aren't that easy to find in that tome. > > Bash (or sh) is really a programming language :-) Tell me about it! > > You're looking for $! : > > Special Parameters: > ... > ! Expands to the process ID of the job most recently > placed into the background, whether executed as an asynchronous > command or using the bg builtin (see JOB CONTROL below). If its the PID of what *this* script launched, as opposed to what another script launched, that is exactly what I need. Experiments in the next days, thank you Karl. > > Hope this helps I believe it does. > Karl E. Jorgensen Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
