Process ID of th shell

[Robert Earl]

In article <11563 at mirsa.inria.fr> gilette at trinidad.inria.fr (Serge Gilette) writes:

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

Attached to?  You mean the current process?  It's in "$$"; as in

	kill -9 $$

There's no way to get the parent process from conventional shells.


But, if you just want to kill the parent...

	exec perl -e 'kill 9, getppid'

:-)

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