Macos – find the (current shell process’) PID

macospidunixzsh

I'm on OS X using ZSH (have lots of homebrew stuff, too).

I'd like to know the PID of my current terminal.

(I'm learning more about process management on *nix systems, pstree and the like, and so this is more an academic question vs. a specific use case I'm trying to solve)

EDIT: to clarify, I'm referring to the process that is running my current terminal/commandline.

Best Answer

The special variable $$ is the current pid of the shell you are running, for any Bourne compatible (and, so, POSIX) shell.

Related Solutions

Bash autocomplete like zsh

I use

bind 'TAB:menu-complete'

to achieve it

Show PID of process just launched in ZSH

After reading your last comment I understand you want to know the PID of the process you are looking in your terminal. We have all this same need.
This is what I usually do:

I open two terminals.

In the first one I will read the output of mysqld:

touch   mysql.log
tail -f mysql.log

In the second one I run mysqld in background:

mysqld >mysql.log 2>&1 &
ps f

I use this second terminal to control/spy mysqld.

Hope this may help.
Cheers.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Bash autocomplete like zsh

Show PID of process just launched in ZSH

Related Question