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Re: what alternatives does a shell command have in determining its

Janis Papanagnou

2007-05-23, 7:20 pm

Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> Larry W. Virden wrote:
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> How about
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> ps -p $PPID

Let me add, to get the name of the process and suppress the header
you can use (on Linux; I can't tell for Solaris' ps options)

ps h -p $PPID -o "%c"

Janis
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