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Scott - Слава Україні
– Scott - Слава Україні

2015-06-25 00:02:31 +00:00
Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 0:02
It does. Seems silly, but it hadn't occurred to me to use a heredoc- thanks!

Parthian Shot
– Parthian Shot

2015-06-25 00:16:47 +00:00
Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 0:16
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It is also mentioned in bash man page: "[$]$ Expands to the process ID of the shell. In a () subshell, it expands to the process ID of the current shell, not the subshell." May be it also applies to subshells created for pipes

nitishch
– nitishch

2015-06-25 01:12:43 +00:00
Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 1:12

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