PIDOF
Section: Linux System Administrator's Manual (8)
Updated: 27 May 1997
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 typically 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.
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 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.
SEE ALSO
shutdown(8),
init(8),
halt(8),
reboot(8)
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl