PIDOF

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 24 Jul 2013
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NAME

pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.  

SYNOPSIS

pidof [-s] [-c] [-x] [-o omitpid[,omitpid..]] [-o omitpid[,omitpid..]..] program [program..]  

DESCRIPTION

Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs. It prints those id's on the standard output.  

OPTIONS

-s

Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.

-c

Only return process ids that are running with the same root directory. This option is ignored for non-root users, as they will be unable to check the current root directory of processes they do not own.

-x

Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of shells running the named scripts.

-o omitpid

Tells pidof to omit processes with that process id. The special pid %PPID can be used to name the parent process of the pidof program, in other words the calling shell or shell script.

 

EXIT STATUS

0

At least one program was found with the requested name.

1

No program was found with the requested name.

 

SEE ALSO

pgrep(1), pkill(1)  

AUTHOR

Jaromir Capik <jcapik@redhat.com>

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

EXIT STATUS

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR