how to get PID without using pidof command?

ruchika · 09-19-2003, 02:21 PM

Hi,

Just when I figured out how to use pidof with kill to signal a running process, I learnt that the embedded platform I am using does not support pidof and find commands. It does support other popular commands such as ps, grep, kill, ls though.

I have a shell script that gets a process's PID and sends it a signal.

kill -s testsig# $(pidof test)

Can someone help me do this without using pidof.

Thanks,
Ruchika

SaTaN · 09-19-2003, 02:38 PM

kill -s SIGKILL `ps | awk '{if($4=="test")print $1 }'`

P.S :- Be careful with the quotes....

Hko · 09-22-2003, 03:12 PM

$ pidof apache
708 707 706 705 704 687

$ ps -e | fgrep apache | sed -n 's/^ *$[0-9]*$.*/\1/p'
687
704
705
706
707
708