[Cialug] Looking for a simple parallelization command

Daniel A. Ramaley daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
Wed Nov 12 11:12:23 CST 2008


On Wednesday November 12 2008 11:09, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>Hi, what does $! do? (I tried searching but $! made google unhappy)

=46rom the "Special Parameters" section of the bash man page:

!      Expands  to  the  process ID of the most recently executed back=1B$B=
!>=1B(B
       ground (asynchronous) command.

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