Re: $$ broken??

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> $ pid=$(sh -c 'ps -oppid -p $$')
> $ pid=${pid#PPID }

Ooh, nice!  Thank you.

> Although some old versions of sh don't like the space in that
> pattern.

At worst, and at the cost of another process,

ps -oppid -p $$ | sed -e 1d

/~\ The ASCII                             Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML                mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost
/ \ Email!           7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B