Finding the first pid
 

Hi,

I want to find the first pid of a process, if I type...

pidof strs

i get

2606 2607 2608 2609 ...

Anyone know how can I just return 2606?

Thanks

How about:

pidof strs|cut -d " " -f 1


EDIT:
Hey I read the man page of pidof and it actually has a flag that does this:
-s Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.

man pidof :)

Sorry m0rl0ck should have read the man page thoughly first. But using cut in this way is will be very useful for me for other things as well

Thanks