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displaying output. In this mode pidof simply returns true or false without displaying PID values. Updated manual page with new -q (quiet) mode. Added -h flag for pidof, which was recognized before, but not used. The -h flag now displays brief usage information for pidof.
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'\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
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.\" Copyright (C) 1998 Miquel van Smoorenburg.
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.\"
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.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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.\" (at your option) any later version.
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.\"
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.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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.\"
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.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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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 8 "01 Sep 1998" "" "Linux System Administrator's Manual"
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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 [ \-n ]
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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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.B program
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.RB [ program.. ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B Pidof
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finds the process id's (PIDs) of the named programs. It prints those
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id's on the standard output. This program is on some systems used in
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run-level change scripts, especially when the system has a
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\fISystem-V\fP like \fIrc\fP structure. In that case these scripts are
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located in /etc/rc?.d, where ? is the runlevel. If the system has
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a
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.B start-stop-daemon
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(8) program that should be used instead.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.IP \-s
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Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one \fIpid\fP.
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.IP \-c
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Only return process PIDs 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 \-n
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Avoid
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.BR stat (2)
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system function call on all binaries which are located on network
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based file systems like
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.BR NFS .
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Instead of using this option the the variable
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.B PIDOF_NETFS
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may be set and exported.
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.IP \-q
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Do not display matched PIDs to standard out. Simply exit with
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a status of true or false to indicate whether a matching PID was found.
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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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program, in other words the calling shell or shell script.
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.SH "EXIT STATUS"
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.TP
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.B 0
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At least one program was found with the requested name.
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.TP
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.B 1
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No program was found with the requested name.
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.SH NOTES
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\fIpidof\fP is actually the same program as \fIkillall5\fP;
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the program behaves according to the name under which it is called.
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.PP
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When \fIpidof\fP is invoked with a full pathname to the program it
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should find the pid of, it is reasonably safe. Otherwise it is possible
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that it returns PIDs of running programs that happen to have the same name
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as the program you're after but are actually other programs. Note that
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that the executable name of running processes is calculated with
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.BR readlink (2),
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so symbolic links to executables will also match.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR shutdown (8),
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.BR init (8),
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.BR halt (8),
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.BR reboot (8),
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.BR killall5 (8)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
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