pidof1

Usage

Overview

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.

-q

Quiet mode, suppress any output and only sets the exit status accordingly.

-w

Show also processes that do not have visible command line (e.g. kernel worker threads).

-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.

-t

Shows all thread ids instead of pids.

-S separator

Use separator as a separator put between pids. Used only when more than one pids are printed for the program. The -d option is an alias for this option for sysvinit pidof compatibility.

Exit status

0

At least one program was found with the requested name.

1

No program was found with the requested name.