pgrep

pgrep

com-bines the functionality of the ps and grep commands into a single utility. When you run pgrep, you specify certain selection criteria that you want to look for.

-P ppid matches on the specified parent process ID.
-f name matches on the specified process name.
-u user_namematches on the specified process owner.

 If you want to view the name of the process as well as its PID, use the –l option with pgrep com-mand.

>pgrep -l -u root

>pgrep -P 7124

>pgrep -f top

>pgrep -u kenmsipe