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. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - A day for firm decisions!!! Well, then again, maybe not! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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