Re: [PLUG] How to find parent in the shell?

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:50:51PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter said:
> It's worth noting that $PPID is NOT documented to be defined by
> sh(1), though you may get away with that on Linux, since it uses
> bash(1) as sh(1). You should be aware of the portability
> implication, though. (This will NOT work on a traditional sh(1)
> implementation.)

Duly noted, thanks.  I will explicitly use bash instead of sh for this,
then.

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