[brownaryan]

Which is the parent and child process in following command?

$ ls -l | wc -l

Regards

Brownaryan
www.unixhelpline.blogspot.com

[vibhor_agarwalin]

Parent is the shell in which you are running.

ls & wc will be short lived child of the above.

[eggi]

Hey There,

Another way of looking at is that any process spawned by another process is the child of that process (textbook, I know As stated above, for pipelines, there's not distinct parent-child relationship between the elements in the pipe, no matter how long the pipe is, as they're all children of the process spawning the pipe (the shell)

What he said, probably

Cheers,

Mike

[vibhor_agarwalin]

lol