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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only - - occurs there and then - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
