Table of Contentspidof - find the process ID of a running program. pidof [-s] [-o omitpid] [-o omitpid..] program [program..] 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. These scripts are then located in /etc/rc.?d, where ? is the runlevel. - -s
- Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.
- -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.
pidof is simply a (symbolic) link to the killall5 program, which should also be located in /sbin/fP. shutdown(8), init(8), halt(8), reboot(8). Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@drinkel.ow.org
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