Comments on: Finding a running process (pid) by name in Linux http://www.finefrog.com/2006/11/13/finding-a-running-process-pid-by-name-in-linux/ while(true) { write(learn(live())); } Wed, 12 May 2010 16:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chanchal Sakarde http://www.finefrog.com/2006/11/13/finding-a-running-process-pid-by-name-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Chanchal Sakarde Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:32:55 +0000 http://atermin.net/2006/11/13/finding-a-running-process-pid-by-name-in-linux/#comment-466 # ps -ax | grep firefox | awk '{print$1}' This command will show the PID only of firefox. as the requirement is to find PID only. # ps -ax | grep firefox | awk ‘{print$1}’

This command will show the PID only of firefox.
as the requirement is to find PID only.

]]> By: jordoncm http://www.finefrog.com/2006/11/13/finding-a-running-process-pid-by-name-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-465 jordoncm Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:46:10 +0000 http://atermin.net/2006/11/13/finding-a-running-process-pid-by-name-in-linux/#comment-465 Since the writing of this article I have found that you can use regular expressions with the killall command (use -r option). However you must be careful to not accidentally kill more than you wanted to (use -i option to confirm each process before killing it). Since the writing of this article I have found that you can use regular expressions with the killall command (use -r option). However you must be careful to not accidentally kill more than you wanted to (use -i option to confirm each process before killing it).

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