2011/12/20 விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Version Control Buddy 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Run ps aux to find out PID of a process:
>> $ ps aux | grep {process-name}
>>
>
> pgrep gives the PID of the matched processes precisely.
>
> $ pgrep firefox

I prefer "pgrep -x <app name>"  -x matches the exact name of the application.

-- Arun Khan
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