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gAMBOOKa
Asked: 2011-02-08 10:56:29 +0800 CST

pidof giving inaccurate result

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I want to get the pid of a php script:

php /var/www/html/test.php

I have a couple of other php scripts running as well, for instance

php /var/www/html/hello.php
php /var/www/html/world.php

When I run pidof -s -x php /var/www/html/test.php, it randomly gives me the pid of any of the 3 running scripts. I think it's because it's only seeing the php after -x and ignoring the rest. I tried it with quotes and I didn't get any result at all.

pidof -s -x 'php /var/www/html/test.php'
linux php command-line-interface

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Give this a try:

    pgrep -f 'php /var/www/html/test.php'
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