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pidof

Get the ID of a process using its name. More information: https://manned.org/pidof.

  • List all process IDs with given name:

pidof bash

  • List a single process ID with given name:

pidof -s bash

  • List process IDs including scripts with given name:

pidof -x script.py

  • Kill all processes with given name:

kill $(pidof name)

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