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11-03-2006, 02:41 AM

shinytoaster shinytoaster is offline

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bash shell scripting

$! gives you the pid of the last run process. You often see it used to log the process id to a file like

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echo $! > programname.pid

If you are piping one command to another then $! will give you the process id of the second command since it is the last. As in

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command1 | command2 &

How do I get the process id of the first command?

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