pidof: allow to suppress output
Often pidof is used in shell scripts in this form: if pidof daemon >/dev/null; then ... fi The redirection to /dev/null is needed because otherwise the script would output the found PIDs. Let's add a -q option which, similary to grep, just sets the exit code. Also exit on first match, as there is no reason to proceed further when at least a process is matched. Tested with: $ ./pidof bash 17701 14019 5276 2967 $ echo $? 0 $ ./pidof bashx $ echo $? 1 $ ./pidof -q bash $ echo $? 0 $ ./pidof -q bashx $ echo $? 1
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.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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.\" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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.\"
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.TH PIDOF 1 "2020-06-04" "" "User Commands"
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.TH PIDOF 1 "2020-12-22" "" "User Commands"
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.SH NAME
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pidof -- find the process ID of a running program
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B pidof
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.RB [ \-s ]
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.RB [ \-c ]
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.RB [ \-q ]
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.RB [ \-w ]
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.RB [ \-x ]
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.RB [ \-o
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.IR omitpid[,omitpid...] ]
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.RB [ \-o
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.IR omitpid[,omitpid...]... ]
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.RB [ \-S
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.IR separator ]
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Only return process ids that are running with the same root directory.
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This option is ignored for non-root users, as they will be unable to check
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the current root directory of processes they do not own.
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.IP \-x
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Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of
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shells running the named scripts.
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.IP \-q
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Quiet mode, suppress any output and only sets the exit status accordingly.
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.IP \-w
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Show also processes that do not have visible command line (e.g. kernel
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worker threads).
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.IP \-x
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Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of
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shells running the named scripts.
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.IP "-o \fIomitpid\fP"
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Tells \fIpidof\fP to omit processes with that process id. The special
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pid \fB%PPID\fP can be used to name the parent process of the \fIpidof\fP
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