PIDOF

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