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From: blum@drutx.ATT.COM (Mark Blumhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: pid from process name
Keywords: pid
Message-ID: <11723@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 89 16:22:25 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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I saw this very question about a month ago, but never saw an answer...

Given a process name, how can I find its process id?   It just isn't
obvious to me, other than a system call to grep thru the output of ps,
which I don't want to do.

Mark