pid - Retrieve process identifiers
pid ?fileId?
pid(1t) Tcl Built-In Commands pid(1t)
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NAME
pid - Retrieve process identifiers
SYNOPSIS
pid ?fileId?
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DESCRIPTION
If the fileId argument is given then it should normally refer to a
process pipeline created with the open command. In this case the pid
command will return a list whose elements are the process identifiers
of all the processes in the pipeline, in order. The list will be empty
if fileId refers to an open file that is not a process pipeline. If no
fileId argument is given then pid returns the process identifier of the
current process. All process identifiers are returned as decimal
strings.
EXAMPLE
Print process information about the processes in a pipeline using the
SysV ps program before reading the output of that pipeline:
set pipeline [open "| zcat somefile.gz | grep foobar | sort -u"]
# Print process information
exec ps -fp [pid $pipeline] >@stdout
# Print a separator and then the output of the pipeline
puts [string repeat - 70]
puts [read $pipeline]
close $pipeline
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/tcl-8 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
exec(n), open(n)
KEYWORDS
file, pipeline, process identifier
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl-
core8.6.7-src.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.
Tcl 7.0 pid(1t)