这是bash进程本身的进程标识.
您可以使用它来追踪您的过程 – 使用ps -p查看是否仍在运行,使用kill发送信号(例如暂停过程),使用renice更改其优先级等等.
进程ID通常写入日志文件,特别是当脚本的多个实例一次运行时,以帮助跟踪性能或诊断问题.
BASHPID,由ghostdog74提及,在4.0版本添加.这是Mendel Cooper的Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide的一个例子,显示了$$和$BASHPID之间的区别:
#!/bin/bash4
echo "\$\$outside of subshell = $$" # 9602
echo "\$BASH_SUBSHELL outside of subshell = $BASH_SUBSHELL" # 0
echo "\$BASHPID outside of subshell = $BASHPID" # 9602
echo
( echo "\$\$inside of subshell = $$" # 9602
echo "\$BASH_SUBSHELL inside of subshell = $BASH_SUBSHELL" # 1
echo "\$BASHPID inside of subshell = $BASHPID" ) # 9603
# Note that $$returns PID of parent process.