Find the process id of the process name

Question

I know to find the process id of the process name using the top, pidof, ps commands. Anyother way to find the process id of the process name. Thanks in Advance.

For example:

        pidof bash 
        4587

Answer 1

You can also use this:

ps -A | grep 'process_name'

You can refer: ps command for more information

Answer 2

Probably you are looking for pgrep

pgrep bash

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Another option

ps -ef | grep sshd | grep -v 'grep' | awk '{print $2}'