From: Jens Wille <jens.wille@...>
Date: 2012-04-10T20:13:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Bash - "jobs -l" command from ruby. HMmmmm.

hi marc!

Marc Heiler [2012-04-10 12:22]:
> Is there any other way I can find out the PIDs of
> the jobs that were started from that bash instance?
why not just use plain old `ps`? if you have the PID of the shell in
question, you can use that (`ps --pid PID`); or, if your script is
an immediate child of the target shell, you can use its PPID (`ps
--ppid #{Process.ppid}`). combined with output specifier ('--format
pid') and sort option ('--sort start_time') you can extract the last
started job's PID (excluding Process.pid, of course).

hope that helps...

cheers
jens