pidof

Name

pidof -- find the process ID of a running program

Synopsis

pidof [-s] [-x] [-o omitpid...] program...

Description

Return the process ID of a process which is running the program named on the command line.

The pidof command is a system administration utility, see Path For System Administration Utilities.

Options

-s 

instructs the program to only return one pid.

-x 

causes the program to also return process id's of shells running the named scripts.

-o 

omits processes with specified process id.