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I’m writing some monitoring scripts in Python and I’m trying to find the cleanest way to get the process ID of any random running program given the name of that program
something like
ps -ef | grep MyProgram
I could parse the output of that however I thought there might be a better way in python
Try
pgrep. Its output format is much simpler and therefore easier to parse.