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Re: value of $$ in backgrounded process
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Leonid Isaev (ifax) |
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Re: value of $$ in backgrounded process |
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Wed, 6 Oct 2021 18:39:40 +0000 |
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 04:20:36PM +0200, kovacs istvan wrote:
> what should $$ expand to in a backgrounded process?
> Currently it will expand to the main process ID. Is this fixed, or
> implementation specific?
Is it possible that you are looking for BASHPID?
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I-akula-++-14:38-tmp-> echo -E "$$"; { echo -E " $$ -- $BASHPID"; sleep 5; } &
7328
[1] 7645
7328 -- 7645
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HTH,
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Leonid Isaev