pidof
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NAME
pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
SYNOPSIS
pidof [-s] [-o omitpid] [-o omitpid..] program [pro-
gram..]
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. These
scripts are then located in /etc/rc.?d, where ? is the
runlevel.
OPTIONS
-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 par-
ent 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/fP.
SEE ALSO
shutdown(8), init(8), halt(8), reboot(8).
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@drinkel.ow.org
Hurricane Electric Internet Services
Copyright (C) 1998
Hurricane Electric.
All Rights Reserved.