[Ilugc] echo $$

From: sridharinfinity@xxxxxxxxx (Sridhar R)
Date: Thu Nov 11 22:11:53 2004

sri@infinity:Applications$ echo $$
14654

What is this magic variable in bash?

Actually I did a 'mkdir $$' and to my surprise it created a directory
named '14654' !

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