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From: pds@mit-vax.UUCP (Philip Steen)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: How to get login shell pid's
Message-ID: <895@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 22:16:06 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 22:16:06 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 02:33:28 EDT
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Reply-To: pds@mit-vax.UUCP (Philip Steen)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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In article <4@andromeda.UUCP> version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site andromeda.UUCP mit-vax!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!andromeda!dave dave@andromeda.UUCP (Dave Bloom) writes:
>... what's the best way to get the pid of a users login shell?
>... can it be done similarly in 4.2 BSD?

Sure it can.  The shell variable $$ gets the pid for you, use it thusly in
the C-Shell:

	set pid=$$
	echo "the pid of this shell is $$"

One can do something similar in the Bourne Shell.


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