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Finding processes with pgrep
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Ever so often I want to find a particular process on the system. I've always accomplished this by doing ps -ef | grep PROCESS_NAME.

Today, I stumpled upon a new command by coincidence. The pgrep command. By spending a few minutes reading its documentation (man pgrep) I realized what it's capable of.

Run pgrep -i PROCESS_NAME to find processes. The -i flag tells pgrep to perform case insensitive matching.

Run pgrep -ilf PROCESS_NAME to get long output, including the argument list of the matching process.

From now, this is what I'll be using.

Happy hacking!

GitHub: KevinSjoberg | Twitter: KevinSjoberg

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