Top "Pid" questions

In computing, the process identifier (normally referred to as the process ID or just PID) is a number used by most operating system kernels (such as that of UNIX, Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows) to (temporarily) uniquely identify a process.

What is the best way to ensure only one instance of a Bash script is running?

What is the simplest/best way to ensure only one instance of a given script is running - assuming it's …

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How to get the PID of a process by giving the process name in Mac OS X ?

I am writing a script to monitor the CPU and MEM of any given process. For that i need to …

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How to get PID of process I've just started within java program?

I've started a process with following code ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("cmd", "/c", "path"); try { Process p = pb.start(); } catch (…

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How to check if there exists a process with a given pid in Python?

Is there a way to check to see if a pid corresponds to a valid process? I'm getting a pid …

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How to get PID by process name?

Is there any way I can get the PID by process name in Python? PID USER PR NI VIRT RES …

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How do I kill a backgrounded/detached ssh session?

I am using the program synergy together with an ssh tunnel It works, i just have to open an console …

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How to get child PID in C?

I'm creating child processes in a for-loop. Inside the child process, I can retrieve the child PID with getpid(). However, …

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Find the pid of a java process under Linux

I have a Java program running on a Linux computer, and want to find the process ID (pid) of its …

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How can I list all processes running in Windows?

I would like to find a way to loop through all the active processes and do diagnostics checks on them (…

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How to get pid given the process name

Hi I have searched various forums and here as well, I could find some answers for Linux and Mac but …

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