ProcessID in *nix

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:14:20PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> > There's a POSIX system call, pid_t getppid(void), that returns
> > the parent's process ID.  I'm not sure how one would get that in
> > processing tables.
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> # fpgetppid - to be used with USER
> print(getppid(),"\n");
> exit;

Isn't there a way to do that as a one-liner on the command line?  perl
-e or something?

Cheers,
-- jra
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