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Old 06-10-2003
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ooh, i feel a dummy for this. Smilie

What program (in linux) will let me feed it a running process name and return me a PID? - or will I have to knock together a script?

Thanks in advance.
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Old 06-10-2003
I got the answer somewhere else, but for anyone elses future reference 'pgrep' and '/sbin/pidof' fit the bill.
 
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