Re: [Help-bash] How to determine the parent's parent (Was: Re: Where does $TERM come from?)

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Dennis Williamson wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Andrew Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Eduardo A. Bustamante López <address@hidden> writes:
> > > If you want to explore the process tree, use a tool like ps:
> >
> > I'm looking to replace the "case $TERM in..." statement in my bashrc with
> > something more fine-grained.
> >
> > Since it runs every time bash is launched, and my machine is a 15-year-old
> > thinkpad, I'd prefer not to call an external program like ps. That adds a
> > lot
> > of overhead.
>
>
> On a system with /proc:
>
> stat=($(</proc/$$/stat))    # create an array
> ppid=${stat[3]}             # get the fourth field

   Command substitution is almost as slow as an external command and
   unnecessary:

read -a stat < /proc/$$/stat

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