Re: How to get the child process pid ?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 11/20/03

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    In article <5cc87ce9.0311200615.39f161ba@posting.google.com>,
    pthomsin <pthomsin@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >I would like to find an (easy) way to automatically get the process id
    >of the latest child process of a user per tty. (the process that he
    >currently executes in each terminal)
    >I looked in the man ps, and did not see any option about it.
    >I found pgrep -lnu [username] , but this shows only the most recent
    >process among all (if several sessions of the same user)
    >Same for pstree ...

    Try the "w" command. 

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