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... > > > > 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.
