On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 01:51:48PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/05/2016 01:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 07/05/2016 11:35 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Yeah, I use that one a lot, too. "pidof -x" is useful as well and you > >> don't need the greps. > > > > One of the wonderful things about *nix is the fact that there are so > > many different ways to get exactly the same results, depending on > > personal preference. > > Since "pidof" doesn't do the grep, so you need to specify the entire > process name (e.g. "pidof chron" gets nothing, "pidof chronyd" gets the > PID of the chronyd process). > > In that sense, your "ps aux | grep | grep -v grep" is a more flexible > in that you only need to know part of the process name. I use it a lot > myself--but not to the point of turning it into a script/utility. :)
There is also "pgrep" $ pgrep chronyd 1542 $ pgrep chron 1542 $ pgrep fire 1535 8708 21777 $ pgrep -l fire 1535 firewalld 8708 firewall-applet 21777 firefox $ pgrep -a fire 1535 /usr/bin/python -Es /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid 8708 /usr/bin/python -Es /usr/bin/firewall-applet 21777 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jo...@jgcomp.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
