Finding the first pid

corrierich · 03-05-2003, 10:45 AM

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

m0rl0ck · 03-05-2003, 10:51 AM

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

corrierich · 03-06-2003, 02:43 AM

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