On 07/05/2016 02:18 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 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

Ok, now that's one I hadn't heard of. That's nice!

Thanks for the tip!
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