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Date:      Tue, 3 Apr 2012 12:33:31 -0400
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        tak.official@gmail.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: current pids per tty
Message-ID:  <CAHHBGkqw865mGPS-9PSBfFa9qOJO8wJcrsTvfr4aoxw%2B0EF9Eg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3 April 2012 04:19, takCoder <tak.official@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> i'm trying to find out a way to list *all* the pids of which running in t=
he
> 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 =A0or ...?
>
> as you may know, W(1)'s output just shows the number of pts devices in it=
s
> 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.

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