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.

Get the PID of a Windows service by the name of the service

Is there a way of getting the PID of a windows service with a command in a batch script by …

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Get PID from MS-Word ApplicationClass?

Consider this code: using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word; ApplicationClass _application = new ApplicationClass(); Can I get the PID from the Winword.…

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Bash Script, Kill process by pulling from PID file

This is what I have right now in the bash script: ps aux | grep glassfish | grep domain1 | gawk '{print $2}…

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How to detect the launching of programs on Linux?

I wrote a simple daemon. This daemon should respond when I run any program. How to do this? In a …

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Wait until a certain process (knowing the "pid") end

I have this: def get_process(): pids = [] process = None for i in os.listdir('/proc'): if i.isdigit(): pids.…

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Anyway to get the ID of processes created by Supervisord?

I need the process ID of processes created using supervisord for use in a script. Processes spawned by supervisord don't …

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How to check if an arbitrary PID is running using Node.js?

Is there some way to check if an arbitrary PID is running or alive on the system, using Node.js? …

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How to find out application name by PID (process id)

I'm trying to install VisualSVN server and have message "Specified TCP port is occupied by another service". How I can …

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How to get variable from text file into Bash variable

Simple question, in BASH I'm trying to read in a .pid file to kill a process. How do I read …

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How to get pid of my make command in the Makefile?

I want to use a temp directory that will be unique to this build. How can I get the pid …

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