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<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>
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</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>
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<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Appendix A - Psmisc: This
+package provides a pidof as well, added explanation of
+it.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed, Vim,
Shadow: Added missing && after the sed and echo
commands.</para></listitem>