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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bourne shell & Korn shell Post 302570496 by felipe.vinturin on Thursday 3rd of November 2011 12:31:15 PM
Old 11-03-2011
Or if you want to know the PID of a process you spawned in your current session, "$!" holds the PID of the last process.

Check the example below:
Code:
# nohup sleep 10 1>/dev/null 2>&1 &
[1] 5964
# echo $!
5964
# ps -ef | egrep "${!}" | grep -v -e ps -e grep
user     5964 PPID  0 14:34 pts/0    00:00:00 sleep 10

 

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