Where Can I Find My (Current Shell Process') Pid?
I'm on Os X Using Zsh (Have Lots of Homebrew Stuff, Too). I'd Like to Know the Pid of My Current Terminal. (I'm Learning More About Process Management on *Nix...
I'm on OS X using ZSH (have lots of homebrew stuff, too).
I'd like to know the PID of my current terminal.
(I'm learning more about process management on *nix systems, pstree and the like, and so this is more an academic question vs. a specific use case I'm trying to solve)
EDIT: to clarify, I'm referring to the process that is running my current terminal/commandline.
1 Answer
The special variable $$ is the current pid of the shell you are running, for any Bourne compatible (and, so, POSIX) shell.
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