Zsh Mailing List Archive Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author

Re: getting PID of current shell process

X-seq: zsh-users 1176
From: Szekeres Istvan <szekeres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: kutek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: getting PID of current shell process
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:22:58 +0100 (CET)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199712031511.KAA06526@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> 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

References:
- getting PID of current shell process
  - From: kutek

Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author