Re: bash commands

2002-11-19 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:55:49PM -0500, Daniel Danu wrote: > Can you tell me please what $$ and $! mean ? $$ is the PID of the running shell. $! is the PID of the last background command. -- Michael Heironimus

Re: bash commands

2002-11-19 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Daniel Danu wrote: Hi, Can you tell me please what $$ and $! mean ? Thanks, Dan from man bash: $ Expands to the process ID of the shell. In a () subshell, it expands to the process ID of the current shell, not the subshell. ! Expands to the process ID of the mos

bash commands

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel Danu
Hi, Can you tell me please what $$ and $! mean ? Thanks, Dan

Re: Bash commands

2002-10-25 Thread Petro
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:15:35PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Oct 24 2002, Petro wrote: > > Man pages (which seem to be a dying breed) > Dying? Why should they die? I happen to actually like man I said "they seem to be a dying breed", not "They should die a horrible stinkin

Re: Bash commands

2002-10-25 Thread john_macphail
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:12:13AM -0700, Petro wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:09:56PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > > Daniel Danu wrote: > > >Hi, > > >I am new to the bash and mostly Linux scripts. Where I can find useful > > >information about the bash command syntax, like > > > exec

Re: Bash commands

2002-10-24 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 24 2002, Petro wrote: > Man pages (which seem to be a dying breed) Dying? Why should they die? I happen to actually like man pages. What are the better alternatives? One thing that I love about man pages is that I can format them quite nicely with the "-

Re: Bash commands

2002-10-24 Thread Petro
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:09:56PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Daniel Danu wrote: > >Hi, > >I am new to the bash and mostly Linux scripts. Where I can find useful > >information about the bash command syntax, like > > exec > $build_log 2>&1and what does it really mean? > I would sugges

Re: Bash commands

2002-10-24 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Daniel Danu wrote: Hi, I am new to the bash and mostly Linux scripts. Where I can find useful information about the bash command syntax, like exec > $build_log 2>&1and what does it really mean? Many thanks, Dan I would suggest a good book, if I knew one. Just don't type "man bas

Bash commands

2002-10-24 Thread Daniel Danu
Hi, I am new to the bash and mostly Linux scripts. Where I can find useful information about the bash command syntax, like exec > $build_log 2>&1and what does it really mean? Many thanks, Dan