-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Would this be a case for "ps"?
If you would like to know the PID of the process that calls your script you could execute "ps -o comm= $PPID" https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/ps.html Rudi November 11, 2019 5:34 PM, "Jack" <ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 11/11/19 12:38 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 04:37:17AM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote > > hi - is it possible to have some kind of fancy links that > know the name of the process that is trying to access > it, and based on its name, it links it to a file? >> Short answer... YES! Now convince the developers to use it. Here's a >> trivial example... >> >> * Create a 2-line executable script "foo" >> #!/bin/bash >> echo "${0}" >> >> * Create a symlink with the command "ln -s foo bar" >> >> * Execute "./foo" and the output will be "./foo" >> >> * Execute "./bar" and the output will be "./bar" > > That makes a distinction based on the name by which the script was called, > not on the name of the > calling script. Caveman Al, have I misunderstood what your are asking for? > > Jack -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Keybase OpenPGP v2.1.3 Comment: https://keybase.io/crypto wsFcBAABCgAGBQJdyq9EAAoJEO9k88vRoevdQLUP/RTw4j7pwVpehYcElbrJ1KdI 5W9Jyx2x8rr3JQz0s3YYehp/WZITKWLiIj4ho3FuHXWRVr+4ncl1s2NMJ9FR2GLV aquB4G+6t4n0dUIiVOKXnIl9vT9fRvS3yLby77dO9mMdoU6EjUSSYFxLC1F51rpj FjrF2wiT3aGb0lEunEF2ZGMXwoLCbRw88bfovFq4CiU5nteMBfcbp/FH0X9nyyEJ eL8855Jojd+KZLazJEKpGQob2dzvJQ/l9KE1dLy2NUu57OSBIh20WsZoAN89G7dR DWG70ywdivTpMmHooegpRxbMXrDZx662iSnWcERddG2vcirIisYhhlh8qgQYn83n Q/HSvKDp/o+kkkav25TYiKUBV6nT/t6WvFbXoz8WDJKErFbMBobBD8H3mqclL4OF 3nyXVniD2dfVeR/pGu1U0iI5+kLBt+GKv7l01LhfenOF/Hsm0qAbaH+523BggCMH Ak6/Ec3GU7qV5QNAqdFFlpvIP3VzfbTHEaDDbPfSBAENJD7GrBfUanxFtIs9LpS8 JtJKC/b/CWiK0jnAGe6yC8yqRb5qjtz60GWSFZPKVoSdwdsMlIJ4XmmLZHDtncQh 87BiEG2Tt3QobekaYqv6/fGA7g6tn9xAZWQpgpImM8kDAlLFtBr4uTa4Fq9V/hFI qVwD3XtUKn+TD0vC+cYc =loNt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
