pidof

 

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 PIDOF(8)       Linux System Administrator's Manual       PIDOF(8)
 
 
 
NAME
        pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
 
SYNOPSIS
        pidof [-s] [-x] [-o omitpid] [-o omitpid..]  program [pro­
        gram..]
 
DESCRIPTION
        Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs.
        It  prints those id's on the standard output. This program
        is on some systems used in run-level change scripts, espe­
        cially  when  the system has a System-V like rc structure.
        In that case these  scripts  are  located  in  /etc/rc?.d,
        where  ?  is the runlevel. If the system has a start-stop-
        daemon (8) program that should be used instead.
 
OPTIONS
        -s     Single shot - this instructs the  program  to  only
               return one pid.
 
        -x     Scripts  too  -  this  causes  the  program to also
               return process id's of  shells  running  the  named
               scripts.
 
        -o     Tells pidof to omit processes with that process id.
               The special pid %PPID can be used to name the  par­
               ent  process  of  the pidof program, in other words
               the calling shell or shell script.
 
NOTES
        pidof is simply a (symbolic) link to the killall5 program,
        which should also be located in /sbin.
 
        When  pidof is invoked with a full pathname to the program
        it should find the pid of, it is reasonably  safe.  Other­
        wise  it  is possible that it returns pids of running pro­
        grams that happen to have the same  name  as  the  program
        you're after but are actually other programs.
 
SEE ALSO
        shutdown(8), init(8), halt(8), reboot(8)
 
AUTHOR
        Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
 
 
 
                            01 Sep 1998                   PIDOF(8)

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