That is useful to discover the start time of process older than 1 day.
You can also run:
ls -ld /proc/PID
That's returning the creation date of the proc files from the process. Some users reported that this way might show you a wrong date since any other process like cron, for example, could change this date.
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Lis all files opened by a particular process id. "PID" Show Sample Output
This command explains how to manage some asynchronous PID in a global process. The command uses 4 processes in a global process. The asynchronous scripts are simulated by a time.sh script more infos : http://code-esperluette.blogspot.fr/2012/03/bash-gestion-de-processus-asynchrones.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxsPyAtD70I
This prints out a list of all zombie processes PIDs so you can do things like kill the zombies Show Sample Output
Actually $! is an internal variable containing PID of the last job in background.
More info: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internalvariables.html#PIDVARREF
Using $! for job control:
possibly_hanging_job & { sleep ${TIMEOUT}; eval 'kill -9 $!' &> /dev/null; }
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