How to get the running process’ pid in Bash?

How to get the running process’ pid in Bash?

In Bash, you can get the process ID from the variable $$.

Note that in a subshell invoked by ‘(…)‘, $$ is actually the parent process’ pid.

In Bash 4, you can also use $BASHPID to get the process pid.

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