Re: An inotifywait question

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>]

On Friday 17 April 2015 12:34:11 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 12:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

[...]

> > Thanks for any clues.  The bash manual, at around 500 pages, details 
> > aren't that easy to find in that tome.
>
> Bash (or sh) is really a programming language :-)

Tell me about it!
>
> You're looking for $! :
>
> Special Parameters:
> ...
>        !      Expands  to the process ID of the job most recently
> placed into the background, whether executed as an asynchronous
>               command or using the bg builtin (see JOB CONTROL below).

If its the PID of what *this* script launched, as opposed to what another 
script launched, that is exactly what I need.  Experiments in the next 
days, thank you Karl.
>
> Hope this helps

I believe it does.

> Karl E. Jorgensen

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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