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edit approved Mar 1, 2017 at 17:52
Benjamin W.
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Benjamin W.
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(I know it's late, but hoping someone could use it.)

I've had great results with this combination:

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}'

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}'

Edit 1: On Tru64 (OSF/1), the output has parentheses around the shell. Tack on tr -d '()'tr -d '()' to remove them.

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}' | tr -d '()'

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}' | tr -d '()'

Appears to works on all shells, on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.7 / 6.4. Didn't test other distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint, but I would think they should all work the same; I also have no idea if FreeBSD would work.

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(I know it's late, but hoping someone could use it.)

I've had great results with this combination:

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}'

Edit 1: On Tru64 (OSF/1), the output has parentheses around the shell. Tack on tr -d '()' to remove them.

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}' | tr -d '()'

Appears to works on all shells, on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.7 / 6.4. Didn't test other distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint, but I would think they should all work the same; I also have no idea if FreeBSD would work.

enter image description here

I've had great results with this combination:

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}'

On Tru64 (OSF/1), the output has parentheses around the shell. Tack on tr -d '()' to remove them.

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}' | tr -d '()'

Appears to works on all shells, on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.7 / 6.4. Didn't test other distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint, but I would think they should all work the same; I also have no idea if FreeBSD would work.

enter image description here

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Chris Embry
Chris Embry
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(I know it's late, but hoping someone could use it.)

I've had great results with this combination:

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}'

Edit 1: On Tru64 (OSF/1), the output has parentheses around the shell. Tack on tr -d '()' to remove them.

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}' | tr -d '()'

Appears to works on all shells, on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.7 / 6.4. Didn't test other distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint, but I would think they should all work the same; I also have no idea if FreeBSD would work.

enter image description here

(I know it's late, but hoping someone could use it.)

I've had great results with this combination:

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}'

Appears to works on all shells, on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.7 / 6.4. Didn't test other distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint, but I would think they should all work the same; I also have no idea if FreeBSD would work.

enter image description here

(I know it's late, but hoping someone could use it.)

I've had great results with this combination:

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}'

Edit 1: On Tru64 (OSF/1), the output has parentheses around the shell. Tack on tr -d '()' to remove them.

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}' | tr -d '()'

Appears to works on all shells, on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.7 / 6.4. Didn't test other distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint, but I would think they should all work the same; I also have no idea if FreeBSD would work.

enter image description here

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Chris Embry
Chris Embry
  • 79
  • 2

(I know it's late, but hoping someone could use it.)

I've had great results with this combination:

ps -p $$ | awk '$1 != "PID" {print $(NF)}'

Appears to works on all shells, on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.7 / 6.4. Didn't test other distros such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint, but I would think they should all work the same; I also have no idea if FreeBSD would work.

enter image description here