pidof COMMAND:

pidof COMMAND:
pidof linux command is used to find the process ID of a running program.

SYNTAX:
The Syntax is
pidof [options..] program

OPTIONS:

-s	Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.
-x	Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of shells running the named scripts.
-o	Tells pidof to omit processes with that process id. The special pid %PPID can be used to name the parent process of the pidof program, in other words the calling shell or shell script.

EXAMPLE:

1. To find a process id of a particular console:
   

   pidof -s console

   This command prints the process id of the console.

   3189