get process id

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Scott Nelson done said:
> Having a brain clog here.
> 
> SCO OpenServer 5.06, fP 5
> 
> I need to get the process id of a filepro program and use it in a variable
> while in the program.  I know this has been discussed in the past, but
> there is a memory leak here....

-Assuming- that fP uses fork/exec for USER rather than system() (the latter
would put an extra shell process between fP and the child), run USER on the
following and grab the single line result:

perl -e 'print(getppid(),"\n");'

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