Process ID of th shell

[Andy Crump]

>>>>> On 31 May 91 12:06:30 GMT, gilette at trinidad.inria.fr (Serge Gilette) said:

Serge>  i was wondering how a script shell can tell the process id of the
Serge> shell it's attached to (in order to being able to kill it).


Try the variable $$.
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