Parent process ID

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In article <12046 at orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe at 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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