On 3 April 2012 04:19, takCoder <tak.offic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > i'm trying to find out a way to list *all* the pids of which running in the > background of or as the parent *of the current tty* device my shell file is > running on.. is there a quick way to find it out as for commands like tty > (for current tty) or whoami (for current user) or i should just grep and > sed the output of commands like w or ...? > > as you may know, W(1)'s output just shows the number of pts devices in its > tty column.. so it won't be that easy to grep them all(i'm somehow new in > shell scripting as well).. and i need the detailed info about related > processes; like FROM or WHAT outputs of w command.. (BTW, i'm trying to > write a reporting per-tty shell script for my FreeBSD system..) > > it would be very kind of you giving me any tips or tricks on this.
tcsh & sh both have a builtin called "jobs" (there is an executable named /usr/bin/jobs, but . . . well run "cat /usr/bin/jobs" & see for yourself). I dunno if that encompasses everything you want to do. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
