restrict pidof to own processes

Question

In bash,

pidof unison

will list me unison processes of all users. However I am only interested in instances started under my uid.

How can I achieve this?

What I want to do: I'm periodically syncing several accounts on several machines using unison. However, I want the sync to not start, if the current user has manually started unison.

Answer 1

You could use pgrep instead, like

pgrep -u <userid> unison

which will return a list of pids of unison processes that have the euid of the given user.

Answer 2

You can parse ps output like this:

ps -ef | grep unison | grep -v grep | grep "${USER}" | awk '{print $2}'