PID (Process Identificator) is the number that identifies a process running on a operational system.
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Run a process and return its PID (as CHP.EXE) for a batch file
I'm looking for something like chp.exe, it can run a command and return its pid.
I can not use CHP.EXE because it seems to be reported as infected file in some antiviruses.
Thanks
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Is there a process with pid 0 linux? [duplicate]
Is there a process with pid 0 linux? Also is there any negative pids? This is just out of curiosity :D
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What processes, if any, exist between PIDs 0 and 4 on Windows 7?
Just out of curiosity what are the processes between 0 and 4, and also between 4 and 200 something.
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hide pid when a process is launched in background
So I put this command vncconfig -iconic &, this causes vncconfig window to launch and terminal will display like [1] 13488. I want to hide this pid info.
That is, when we put the command, only ...
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Install perl module from rpm file
I have a perl issue and obviously I'm not a perl expert. I can not use CPAN.
I've installed File::Pid using a rpm, or I tried. I downloaded perl-File-Pid-1.01-3.el5.noarch.rpm (and the ...
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Interfacing strace with Process Name instead of PID
How do I implement a wrapper script pstrace in bash that changes the interface of
[sudo] strace -c -p [PID]
to
[sudo] pstrace -c -p [PROCESS-NAME]
similar to how
killall [PROCESS-NAME]
is ...
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How to find PID's user name in linux
Can you help me to find the PID's user name, Some time my server got high load. When i top -c, I cannot even find the PID's user name who / which is causing load on the server.
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Determine display or VNC session based on PID
I frequently VNC into a server where we run many concurrent computationally intensive matlab processes. Sometimes, one of my processes misbehave, which I can see from top, but I have a hard time ...
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Is a process PID guaranteed to stay the same as long as the process doesn't die?
I'm doing some simulation work with Linux, and the code I'm working on right now only works under the assumption that, once a process has been assigned a PID by the kernel, that PID will remain the ...
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Linux - alternative places where to store pid file instead of /var/run
As written in the title, where should I let the init script write the pid file? are there any standard paths I should choose instead of the /var/run ?
Could /tmp be a good place where to store it or ...
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How to get the pid of a running process using a single command that parse the output of ps?
I am looking for a single line that does return the pid of a running process.
Currently I have:
ps -A -o pid,cmd|grep xxx|head -n 1
And this returns the fist pid, command. I need only the first ...
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Get PID of process started in screen by su
i have a simple script that starts quassel-core in a screen session as different user!
The script is:
#!/bin/sh
su ircc -c 'screen -dmS quassel /home/ircc/quassel/quassel-core'
I want to start and ...
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Excluding grep from process list
I have cobbled together a command to return the process ID of a running daemon:
ps aux | grep daemon_name | awk "{ print \$2 }"
It works perfectly and returns the PID, but it also returns a second ...
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Where can I find my (current shell process') PID?
I'm on OS X using ZSH (have lots of homebrew stuff, too).
I'd like to know the PID of my current terminal.
(I'm learning more about process management on *nix systems, pstree and the like, and so ...
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How do I locate the PID code for an ASUS laptop webcam?
I can't look in the Device Manager for the PID code because the camera has disappeared from the device list. The driver still shows up in programs list, but the camera doesn't work. Where else can I ...
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Show PID of process just launched in ZSH
Can I show the PID of a process that I just launched, ideally at the end of the line of the command?
Example:
root in ~: mysqld .................. [PID 34567]
12121 mysql-logs start to come in...
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Reattaching to screen - Linux
We run several screen instances from one box, eg. :
27185.pts-53.CentOS-57-64-minimal (Detached)
27209.pts-53.CentOS-57-64-minimal (Detached)
27281.pts-53.CentOS-57-64-minimal ...
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How can I stop jenkins.pid in fedora15?
I have jenkins running, but I need to stop it. in /var/run I have jenkins.pid which is what the standard jenkins script uses to stop jenkins. The jenkins script uses start-stop-daemon which doesn't ...
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PID:4 using Port 80
I was trying to install Zend Server CE on my computer but when I got to the point were I need to choose the port for my Web Server it says: "Web Server Port: 80 Occupied". So I decided to check what ...
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Routing packets to different available networks using process' pid / uid
I need to route packets from some processes(unique pids/uids) to desired network connection.
So, Suppose we have 4 processes with pids 10, 11, 12, 13 respectively; and we have two network connections ...
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Windows analog of $1 (PID of the last started process)
How to get on Windows PID of the last started process using WScript.Shell or similar?
I know how to start a process and get its PID:
Set oExec = WshShell.Exec( program )
Set pid = oExec.ProcessID
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how to kill one tab of google chrome using pid
I want to close one tab of chrome. I tried killing the pid of the tab, but the tab doesn't close instead says "Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, reload or go ...
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Blink/Flash Text -Shell Script
I have a bash script where I'm zipping some files. This process sometimes takes time depending on the file sizes. I want to get the pid of this command and display a flashing message "Zipping..." ...
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How to identify the process which has loaded a certain file
I have certain file in the disk which I am unable to delete, as it mentions that it's being used by a certain process.
How do I identify the process which is using this file?
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pid number in task manager can't be found
i tried running the netstat -o to check what are the connections which are establised. i saw 2 and they have PID numbers when i checked it on my task manager, i can't find those pid number.
is there ...
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Loop: Start program and kill after time out
for debugging reasons I want to spot one of those bugs showing up just occasionally. Therefore I want to code a while loop in the shell
starting the program (if it will segfault => that's what I ...
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How to get parent PID of a given process in GNU/Linux from command line?
Resolved before asked: cat /proc/1111/status | grep PPid
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After forced quit, “killall Finder” says “No matching processes…” but PID still exists?
Here's one for ya. Upon a forced quit of the Finder with unsuccessful relaunch, "killall Finder" in terminal returns:
"No matching processes belonging to you were found"
Oddly enough, the PID for ...
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How can I check the PID of a X-server in another virtual terminal?
I am trying to open a program in a naked X-server on a different virtual terminal.
I am using ubuntu 9.10.
The command I'm using is this.
openvt -f -s -- `X :2 & '/path/to/program' -display :2`;
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Where does the command “top” get its information from in linux?
Which files does the linux command "top" read from in order to build its table of data? Specifically, I'd like to be able to find the data for the "command" column based off of a PID.
