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getting PID of current shell process

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From: kutek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: getting PID of current shell process
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 10:11:13 -0500 (EST)

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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