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* getting PID of current shell process
@ 1997-12-03 15:11 kutek
  1997-12-03 15:14 ` Wessel Dankers
  1997-12-03 15:22 ` Szekeres Istvan
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: kutek @ 1997-12-03 15:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: zsh-users

hi,

i need to have a way to get the pid of the current shell process but there
doesn't seem to be a way to do this easily eg no $PID shell variable.
Is there a reason for this and could you please add it if possible?
the $PPID doesn't help me at all.

thanks

B


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* Re: getting PID of current shell process
  1997-12-03 15:11 getting PID of current shell process kutek
@ 1997-12-03 15:14 ` Wessel Dankers
  1997-12-03 15:22 ` Szekeres Istvan
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Wessel Dankers @ 1997-12-03 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kutek; +Cc: zsh-users

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997 kutek@cybercomm.net wrote:

> i need to have a way to get the pid of the current shell process but there
> doesn't seem to be a way to do this easily eg no $PID shell variable.
> Is there a reason for this and could you please add it if possible?
> the $PPID doesn't help me at all.

Try $$

Groetseltjes,

--
Wessel Dankers


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* Re: getting PID of current shell process
  1997-12-03 15:11 getting PID of current shell process kutek
  1997-12-03 15:14 ` Wessel Dankers
@ 1997-12-03 15:22 ` Szekeres Istvan
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Szekeres Istvan @ 1997-12-03 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kutek; +Cc: zsh-users



> i need to have a way to get the pid of the current shell process but there
> doesn't seem to be a way to do this easily eg no $PID shell variable.
> Is there a reason for this and could you please add it if possible?
> the $PPID doesn't help me at all.

$$ evaluates to the pid of the current shell


Pista


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