pidof

Print the PIDs of all processes with the given names. toybox

On Linux

Linux

from the toybox, 0BSD

pidof [-s] [-o omitpid[,omitpid...]] [NAME...]

-oOmit PID(s)

-sSingle shot, only return one pid

-xMatch shell scripts too

Get the ID of a process using its name.

List all process IDs with given name

pidof bashIdentify

List a single process ID with given name

pidof -s bashIdentify

-sSingle shot, only return one pid toybox

List process IDs including scripts with given name

pidof -x script.pyIdentify

-xMatch shell scripts too toybox

Kill all processes with given name

kill $(pidof name)Identify

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