PID of the Bash Process

$BASHPID expands to the process ID of the current Bash process. Subshell processes have a different ID than the parent process.

This is similar to $$, but not the same. $$ contains the process ID of the script, i.e. the parent process.

Links

• Bash manual

Examples

Print PID of the current process :

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echo $BASHPID $$

Print PID of the current subshell process :

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(echo $BASHPID $$)