How to get child process from parent process

Question

Is it possible to get the child process id from parent process id in shell script?

I have a file to execute using shell script, which leads to a new process

Answer 1

You can get the pids of all child processes of a given parent process by reading the /proc//task//children entry.

This file contain the pids of first level child processes.

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