pidof (1) - Linux Manuals
pidof: find the process ID of a running program.
Command to display pidof manual in Linux: $ man 1 pidof
NAME
pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
SYNOPSIS
pidof
[
-s]
[
-c]
[
-x]
[
-o
omitpid[,omitpid..]]
[
-o
omitpid[,omitpid..]..]
program
[
program..]
DESCRIPTION
Pidof
finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs. It prints those
id's on the standard output.
OPTIONS
- -s
-
Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.
- -c
-
Only return process ids that are running with the same root directory.
This option is ignored for non-root users, as they will be unable to check
the current root directory of processes they do not own.
- -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.
AUTHOR
Jaromir Capik <jcapik [at] redhat.com>