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13.4 PROCINFO Array

gawk stores information about the current process in an array named PROCINFO. The array contains the following fields:

Field

Description

egid

Effective group ID

euid

Effective user ID

FS

The type of field splitting being used, either FS or FIELDWIDTHS

gid

Group ID of the calling process

groupn

Supplementary user group IDs associated with the process (group1, group2, etc.)

pgrpid

Process group ID

pid

Process ID

ppid

Parent process ID

uid

User ID of the calling process

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