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NAMEpidof -- find the process ID of a running program
SYNOPSISpidof [−s] [−c] [−q] [−w] [−x] [−o omitpid[,omitpid...]...] [−S separator] program [program...]
DESCRIPTIONPidof 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. −q Quiet mode, suppress any output and only sets the exit status accordingly. −w Show also processes that do not have visible command line (e.g. kernel worker threads). −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. -S separator Use separator as a separator put between pids. Used only when more than one pids are printed for the program. The −d option is an alias for this option for sysvinit pidof compatibility.
EXIT STATUS0 At least one program was found with the requested name. 1 No program was found with the requested name.
BUGSWhen using the −x option, pidof only has a simple method for detecting scripts and will miss scripts that, for example, use env. This limitation is due to how the scripts look in the proc filesystem.
SEE ALSOpgrep(1), pkill(1)
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