You have a process called bigscript, and you need to know the PID number for this process.
Which command will provide that information?
A.
pkill bigscript
B.
ps bigscript
C.
pgrep bigscript
D.
prstat bigscript
Explanation:
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.