You have a process called bigscript, and you need to know the PID number for this process. Which command will provide that information?

The correct answer is C. pgrep bigscript. Pgrep takes a process name and return a PID. Note: pgrep looks through the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which matches the selection criteria to stdout. All the criteria have to match. For example, pgrep -u root sshd will only list the processes called…

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Apkill bigscript
Bps bigscript
Cpgrep bigscript
Dprstat bigscript

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Pgrep takes a process name and return a PID. Note: pgrep looks through the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which matches the selection criteria to stdout. All the criteria have to match. For example, pgrep -u root sshd will only list the processes called sshd AND owned by root. Incorrec answers: ps bigscript: You can't pass a name to ps, it interprets it as arguments.

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