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So here's what I want to do: User inputs a USERNAME. Based on this username, I need to get the list of processes started by this user. I am planning to do this by getting the UID of this user and listing all the processes with this UID. I only found UID in the /proc/$PID/status file. I am unclear about how do I proceed with this.

muru
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  • A `pgrep -u $USERNAME` isn't enough? What else do you need from `/proc/$PID/status`? – muru Oct 15 '15 at 05:14
  • I want to get the UID of the user. Once UID is available, I need to fetch all the PIDs that are under this UID (Basically, get all the processes started by this user). pgrep lists all the PIDs of a particular user, but I need the UID too. – Dee Oct 15 '15 at 05:19
  • check this http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85466/how-to-see-process-created-by-specific-user-in-unix-linux link. It will be helpful. – AVJ Oct 15 '15 at 05:42

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To get the UID from the username, use id -u:

$ id -u root
0
$ id -u lightdm
112
$ id -u nobody 
65534

But you are re-inventing the wheel. pgrep already handles this just fine:

$ pgrep -u www-data
1909
1910
1911
1912
$ id -u www-data   
33
$ pgrep -u 33      
1909
1910
1911
1912

You can also use plain ps:

$ ps -U www-data -o uid,pid
  UID   PID
   33  1909
   33  1910
   33  1911
   33  1912
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