PIDOF (8)
- find the process ID of a running program.
SYNOPSIS
pidof
[ -s ]
[ -x ]
[ -o
omitpid ]
[ -o
omitpid.. ]
program
[ program.. ]
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, especially 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
Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.
Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of
shells running the named scripts.
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.
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. Otherwise it is possible
that it returns pids of running programs that happen to have the same name
as the program you're after but are actually other programs.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
January 7, 1999
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