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
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