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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 [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,  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 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.

NOTES
       pidof is actually the same program as killall5; the program behaves according to the  name
       under which it is called.

       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
       shutdown(8), init(8), halt(8), reboot(8), killall5(8)

AUTHOR
       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels AT cistron.nl



                                           01 Sep 1998                                   PIDOF(8)

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