Find pid in Solaris 10

Find pid in Solaris 10

If you do not know the pid of a process, you can use “pidof” command in Linux. In case of Solaris, its not available.

Here’s how you can find it:

#ps -ef | grep nscd | grep -v grep | cut -c12-19
123

Here, it will find the pid of nscd. the cut command will cut characters from 12 to 19 from output of ‘ps -ef’ command.
or

#ps -ef | grep nscd | grep -v grep | awk ‘{print $2}’

Here, we use awk to print second column of ps.