Skip to main content

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

8
  • This one does not work for me. touch: missing file operand. Also, what is 1##* and btouch? Commented May 30, 2012 at 7:03
  • Fixed. Parameter expansion. $0. Commented May 30, 2012 at 7:03
  • 2
    wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/pe#from_the_beginning Commented May 30, 2012 at 7:17
  • 1
    It's just $0 for the new process. Commented May 30, 2012 at 7:45
  • 2
    Because it looks silly. Plus, $0 shows up in ps and the like, so that you can identify the child process. Commented May 30, 2012 at 7:51