current pids per tty

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 3 April 2012 04:19, takCoder <tak.official at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> i'm trying to find out a way to list *all* the pids of which running in the
> 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  or ...?
>
> as you may know, W(1)'s output just shows the number of pts devices in its
> 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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