How do I get the process name from pid?
Try typing man proc for more information. The contents of /proc/$PID/cmdline will give you the command line that process $PID was run with….7 Answers
- And to get the process name for process id 9999, read the file /proc/9999/comm .
- The question was how to get the process name, not the commandline.
How do I get a job in pid?
Checking the memory usage of a running job:
- First log onto the node your job is running on.
- You can use the Linux commands ps -x to find the Linux process ID of your job.
- Then use the Linux pmap command: pmap
- The last line of the output gives the total memory usage of the running process.
How to get process ID of background process?
… which hoses you if foohappens to be multiple piped commands (eg. tail -f somefile.txt | grep sometext). In such cases, you will get the PID of the grep command from $!rather than the tail command if that’s what you were looking for. You will need to use jobsor psor the likes in this instance.
How to save the PID of the background process?
You need to save the PID of the background process at the time you start it: foo & FOO_PID=$! # do other stuff kill $FOO_PID You cannot use job control, since that is an interactive feature and tied to a controlling terminal.
How to get the PID of a function?
Closed 6 years ago. I need to retrieve the pid of this function, but the echo prints the same string. If I’m not going to put abc () out of this script, is it possible to get it’s pid and terminate that function? $BASHPID or $!
Where do I get the PID of grep?
In such cases, you will get the PID of the grep command from $!rather than the tail command if that’s what you were looking for. You will need to use jobsor psor the likes in this instance. – John RixOct 14 ’14 at 13:52