1PIDOF(1)                         User Commands                        PIDOF(1)
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NAME

6       pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
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SYNOPSIS

9       pidof  [-s]  [-c]  [-x]  [-o  omitpid[,omitpid..]]   [-o omitpid[,omit‐
10       pid..]..]  [-S separator] program [program..]
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DESCRIPTION

13       Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named  programs.  It  prints
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OPTIONS

17       -s     Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.
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19       -c     Only  return  process  ids  that  are running with the same root
20              directory.  This option is ignored for non-root users,  as  they
21              will  be unable to check the current root directory of processes
22              they do not own.
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24       -x     Scripts too - this causes the program  to  also  return  process
25              id's of shells running the named scripts.
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27       -o omitpid
28              Tells  pidof to omit processes with that process id. The special
29              pid %PPID can be used to name the parent process  of  the  pidof
30              program, in other words the calling shell or shell script.
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32       -S separator
33              Use  separator  as  a separator put between pids. Used only when
34              more than one pids are printed for the program.
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EXIT STATUS

37       0      At least one program was found with the requested name.
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39       1      No program was found with the requested name.
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BUGS

43       When using the -x option, pidof only has a simple method for  detecting
44       scripts  and will miss scripts that, for example, use env. This limita‐
45       tion is due to how the scripts look in the proc filesystem.
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SEE ALSO

49       pgrep(1), pkill(1)
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AUTHOR

52       Jaromir Capik <jcapik@redhat.com>
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