Digest #08 - The pidof Command in Linux

pidof is a Linux command-line utility that returns the process IDs of a specific running program by its name.

Those IDs are printed on the standard output. A process ID is a unique identifier assigned to each process when it is created on the system.

The basic sysntax of pidof is as follows:

$ pidof [OPTIONS] PROGRAM_NAME

This command takes zero or more pro…