How to get the PID for COMMAND
 

Hello All,

I 've question on How to get the PID if the CMD is give using "ps" and additional commands.

Eg:

UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 3724 1 0 10:06 ? 00:00:00 konqueror -mimetype inode/directory system:/
root 3847 3111 0 10:14 ? 00:00:00 eclipse
root 3848 3847 2 10:14 ? 00:01:17 /usr/bin/java -Xms40m -Xmx256m -Dosgi.sharedConfiguration.area=/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration -jar /usr/shar
root 3973 3111 0 10:25 ? 00:00:01 konsole
root 3974 3973 0 10:25 pts/3 00:00:00 /bin/bash


if i need to get the PID of eclipse in the given CMD colum, How do i get it using the "ps" command.

as in the above eg i only need to get the pid 3847 using the CMD colum
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Please help me on this

Thank you in advance,
Hasantha

manpage will help you to find more options
ps ax | grep eclipse
or
pgrep eclipse

Hello kirukan,

Thank you for the support. it worked and i really appriciate for the post.

Regards,

Hasantha

@kirukan,
I found your inputs very useful for a particular test case scenario I encountered at work. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
:)