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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody)
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Subject: Re: Parent process ID
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Date: 11 Aug 89 16:11:41 GMT
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In article <12046@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes:
| We know the shell variable $$ means the process ID of current process.
| Is there a variable to represent the Parent Process ID (PPID)? Any hint
| will be welcome.

Korn shell uses $PPID. You could trivially set your .profile to define
such a veriable if you run another shell.
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