How to find a program’s process id (pid)

18 Jul, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in HowTo, Linux

Here’s an easy way to get the pid of a running process.

Running the “pidof” command will return the pid(s) for a running program. See sample below,

danny@pandora:~> pidof syslog-ng
2043
danny@pandora:~> pidof acpid
2045
danny@pandora:~> pidof /usr/bin/firefox
14408
danny@pandora:~> pidof /usr/bin/compiz
27164
danny@pandora:~> pidof /bin/bash
27011 17339 16792 16477 15151 14403

Simple right!?

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