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PIDOF(8)	      Linux System Administrator's Manual	      PIDOF(8)

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 on some systems 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. If the system has a start-stop-
       daemon (8) program that should be used instead.

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.

       When pidof is invoked with a full pathname to  the  program  it	should
       find  the  pid of, it is reasonably safe. Otherwise it is possible that
       it returns pids of running programs that happen to have the  same  name
       as the program you're after but are actually other programs.

SEE ALSO
       shutdown(8), init(8), halt(8), reboot(8)

AUTHOR
       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl

				  01 Sep 1998			      PIDOF(8)
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