patterns, and—by default—returns their process ID. Alternatives include pidof (finds process ID given a program name) and ps. The default behaviour of...

xmms. This would kill all processes named xmms, and is equivalent to kill `pidof xmms` on systems like Solaris. pkill - signals processes based on name and...

parent) process. (Users may obtain the PID with a utility such as pgrep, pidof or ps: $ ls -l /proc/$(pgrep -n python3)/fd # List all file descriptors...

Apply a unified diff to one or more files. pgrep — Search for process(es). pidof — Print the PIDs of all processes with the given names. ping — Check network...

nice nmeter nohup nslookup ntpc ntpsync nvram od openvt passwd patch pgrep pidof — List PIDs of all processes with names that match NAMEs ping6 ping — Send...