How to get the PID of a process that is piped to another process in Bash?
问题 I am trying to implement a simple log server in Bash. It should take a file as a parameter and serve it on a port with netcat. ( tail -f $1 & ) | nc -l -p 9977 But the problem is that when the netcat terminates, tail is left behind running. (Clarification: If I don't fork the tail process it will continue to run forever even the netcat terminates.) If I somehow know the PID of the tail then I could kill it afterwards. Obviously, using $! will return the PID of netcat. How can I get the PID of