Haifux: Quick and Dirty Bash strikes again!

2014-01-01 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello all, On Monday (January 6th), Haifux will re-run its good old Schlager "Quick and Dirty Bash". Anyone who wants to get a better grip on one-liners in bash and some basic scripting, this is the place and time. The slides are available at http://www.haifux.org/lectures/100-sil This is an

Re: Haifux: Quick and Dirty Bash strikes again!

2014-01-01 Thread Amos Shapira
A new trick I learned since the previous round (as far as I remember): jobs -x command which takes pid % will pass the job's pid to the command, e.g. $ long running command [1] 52282 $ jobs -x watch pstree -pall % Will pass 52282 to pstree. You can stick any background job reference instead