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pidof: reimplemented from scratch (replacing sysvinit pidof) As the sysvinit becomes obsolete, some of the bundled tools need to find a new home. The procps-ng project seems to be the most suitable project for adopting the pidof tool. This commit introduces a redesigned version of pidof that satisfies the LSB requirements. In corner cases the behaviour might differ from the former one as the new version doesn't use any stat(2) calls.
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pidof: Fix separator option Short separator option used 's' instead of 'S' which meant it pidof would use the single-shot option when you meant separator. Added alias for -S using -d to give some sysvinit pidof compatibility. References: commit 73492b182dc60c1605d1b0d62de651fad97807af procps-ng/procps#141
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.TH PIDOF 1 "2019-09-21" "" "User Commands"
pidof: reimplemented from scratch (replacing sysvinit pidof) As the sysvinit becomes obsolete, some of the bundled tools need to find a new home. The procps-ng project seems to be the most suitable project for adopting the pidof tool. This commit introduces a redesigned version of pidof that satisfies the LSB requirements. In corner cases the behaviour might differ from the former one as the new version doesn't use any stat(2) calls.
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.SH NAME
pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pidof
.RB [ \-s ]
.RB [ \-c ]
.RB [ \-x ]
.RB [ \-o
.IR omitpid[,omitpid..] ]
.RB [ \-o
.IR omitpid[,omitpid..].. ]
pidof: allow to change a separator put between pids I frequency use pidof command with strace system call tracer. strace can trace MULTIPLE processes specified with "-p $PID" arguments like: strace -p 1 -p 1030 -p 3043 Sometimes I want to do as following strace -p $(pidof httpd) However, above command line doesn't work because -p option is needed for specifying a pid. pidof uses a whitespace as a separator. For passing the output to strace, the separator should be replaced with ' -p '. This maybe not a special to my use case. This commit introduces -S option that allows a user to specify a separator the one wants. $ ./pidof bash ./pidof bash 24624 18790 12786 11898 11546 10766 7654 5095 $ ./pidof -S ',' bash ./pidof -S ',' bash 24624,18790,12786,11898,11546,10766,7654,5095 $ ./pidof -S '-p ' bash ./pidof -S '-p ' bash 24624-p 18790-p 12786-p 11898-p 11546-p 10766-p 7654-p 5095 $ ./pidof -S ' -p ' bash ./pidof -S ' -p ' bash 24624 -p 18790 -p 12786 -p 11898 -p 11546 -p 10766 -p 7654 -p 5095 $ strace -p $(./pidof -S ' -p ' bash) strace -p $(./pidof -S ' -p ' bash) strace: Process 24624 attached strace: Process 18790 attached strace: Process 12786 attached ... Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
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.RB [ \-S
.IR separator ]
pidof: reimplemented from scratch (replacing sysvinit pidof) As the sysvinit becomes obsolete, some of the bundled tools need to find a new home. The procps-ng project seems to be the most suitable project for adopting the pidof tool. This commit introduces a redesigned version of pidof that satisfies the LSB requirements. In corner cases the behaviour might differ from the former one as the new version doesn't use any stat(2) calls.
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.B program
.RB [ program.. ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Pidof
finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs. It prints those
id's on the standard output.
.SH OPTIONS
.IP \-s
Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one \fIpid\fP.
.IP \-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.
.IP \-x
Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of
shells running the named scripts.
.IP "-o \fIomitpid\fP"
pidof: support for omitted %PPID and additional separators This commit introduces support for special %PPID value that can be passed to the -o option as a substitution for parent PID. It also allows users to use two additional separators for omitted PIDs - colon and semicolon.
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Tells \fIpidof\fP to omit processes with that process id. The special
pid \fB%PPID\fP can be used to name the parent process of the \fIpidof\fP
program, in other words the calling shell or shell script.
pidof: allow to change a separator put between pids I frequency use pidof command with strace system call tracer. strace can trace MULTIPLE processes specified with "-p $PID" arguments like: strace -p 1 -p 1030 -p 3043 Sometimes I want to do as following strace -p $(pidof httpd) However, above command line doesn't work because -p option is needed for specifying a pid. pidof uses a whitespace as a separator. For passing the output to strace, the separator should be replaced with ' -p '. This maybe not a special to my use case. This commit introduces -S option that allows a user to specify a separator the one wants. $ ./pidof bash ./pidof bash 24624 18790 12786 11898 11546 10766 7654 5095 $ ./pidof -S ',' bash ./pidof -S ',' bash 24624,18790,12786,11898,11546,10766,7654,5095 $ ./pidof -S '-p ' bash ./pidof -S '-p ' bash 24624-p 18790-p 12786-p 11898-p 11546-p 10766-p 7654-p 5095 $ ./pidof -S ' -p ' bash ./pidof -S ' -p ' bash 24624 -p 18790 -p 12786 -p 11898 -p 11546 -p 10766 -p 7654 -p 5095 $ strace -p $(./pidof -S ' -p ' bash) strace -p $(./pidof -S ' -p ' bash) strace: Process 24624 attached strace: Process 18790 attached strace: Process 12786 attached ... Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
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.IP "-S \fIseparator\fP"
Use \fIseparator\fP as a separator put between pids. Used only when
more than one pids are printed for the program.
pidof: Fix separator option Short separator option used 's' instead of 'S' which meant it pidof would use the single-shot option when you meant separator. Added alias for -S using -d to give some sysvinit pidof compatibility. References: commit 73492b182dc60c1605d1b0d62de651fad97807af procps-ng/procps#141
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The \fI\-d\fR option is an alias for this option for sysvinit pidof
compatibility.
pidof: reimplemented from scratch (replacing sysvinit pidof) As the sysvinit becomes obsolete, some of the bundled tools need to find a new home. The procps-ng project seems to be the most suitable project for adopting the pidof tool. This commit introduces a redesigned version of pidof that satisfies the LSB requirements. In corner cases the behaviour might differ from the former one as the new version doesn't use any stat(2) calls.
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.SH "EXIT STATUS"
.TP
.B 0
At least one program was found with the requested name.
.TP
.B 1
No program was found with the requested name.
docs: Note limitation of finding scripts in pidof.1 pidof will miss scripts that are run a certain way due to how they appear in procfs. This is just a note to say it might miss them. References: procps-ng/procps#17
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.SH BUGS
When using the \fI\-x\fP option,
.B pidof
only has a simple method for detecting scripts and will miss scripts that,
for example, use env. This limitation is due to how the scripts look in
the proc filesystem.
pidof: reimplemented from scratch (replacing sysvinit pidof) As the sysvinit becomes obsolete, some of the bundled tools need to find a new home. The procps-ng project seems to be the most suitable project for adopting the pidof tool. This commit introduces a redesigned version of pidof that satisfies the LSB requirements. In corner cases the behaviour might differ from the former one as the new version doesn't use any stat(2) calls.
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR pgrep (1),
.BR pkill (1)
.SH AUTHOR
Jaromir Capik <jcapik@redhat.com>
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