Information about Pidof
pidof is a Linux utility that returns the process ID (PID) of a running process or processes. On other operating systems, pgrep and ps are often used instead. It is technically a symbolic link to killall5, the System V killall program used by the runlevel scripts, and the name it is called under is what determines its behavior.
Example:
[user&hostname]$ pidof java 3097
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Example:
[user&hostname]$ pidof java 3097
See also
External links
- : find the process ID of a running program – Linux man page on usr-share-man.org
- : send a signal to all processes – Linux man page on usr-share-man.org
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man <page_name>
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Usage
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man pages (short for "manual pages"). The Unix command used to display them is man. Each page is a self-contained document.
man <page_name>
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Usage
To read a page from the manual, one can use the commandman <page_name>
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