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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-09-03 01:48:46 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-09-03 01:48:46 +0000
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Added pidof explanation to psmisc package
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@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
-<para>The Psmisc package contains the fuser, killall and pstree programs.</para>
+<para>The Psmisc package contains the fuser, killall, pidof and pstree
+programs.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -21,6 +22,13 @@ commands.</para>
</sect3>
+<sect3><title>pidof</title>
+
+<para>Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and
+prints those id's on standard output.</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
<sect3><title>pstree</title>
<para>pstree shows running processes as a tree.</para>