pidof.1 (560B)
1 .Dd February 2, 2015 2 .Dt PIDOF 1 3 .Os ubase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm pidof 6 .Nd find the process ID of a running program 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl o Ar pid1,pid2,...pidN 10 .Op Fl s 11 .Op Ar program... 12 .Sh DESCRIPTION 13 .Nm 14 finds the process id's of the named programs and prints them to 15 stdout. 16 .Sh OPTIONS 17 .Bl -tag -width Ds 18 .It Fl o 19 Tell pidof to omit processes with that process id. The special pid 20 %PPID can be used to name the parent process of the pidof program. 21 .It Fl s 22 Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one process id. 23 .El 24 .Sh SEE ALSO 25 .Xr killall5 8