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From: andyc@bucky.intel.com (Andy Crump)
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Subject: Re: Process ID of th shell
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Date: 31 May 91 09:55:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: gilette@trinidad.inria.fr's message of 31 May 91 12:06:30 GMT

>>>>> On 31 May 91 12:06:30 GMT, gilette@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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