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I'm writing some monitoring scripts in Python and I'm trying to find the cleanest way to get the process ID of any random running program given the name of that program
something like
ps -ef | grep MyProgram I could parse the output of that however I thought there might be a better way in python
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The easiest way to find out if process is running is run ps aux command and grep process name. If you got output along with process name/pid, your process is running.
The pidof command is used to find the process ID of the running program. It prints those IDs into the standard output.
Task Manager can be opened in a number of ways, but the simplest is to select Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and then select Task Manager. In Windows, first click More details to expand the information displayed. From the Processes tab, select Details to see the process ID listed in the PID column.
From the standard library:
os.getpid() If you are not limiting yourself to the standard library, I like psutil for this.
For instance to find all "python" processes:
>>> import psutil >>> [p.info for p in psutil.process_iter(attrs=['pid', 'name']) if 'python' in p.info['name']] [{'name': 'python3', 'pid': 21947}, {'name': 'python', 'pid': 23835}] If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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