Cross-platform PID retrieval (by process name), using ps on OSX/Unix and ms-wmic on Windows.
npm i getpid --save
const getpid = require('getpid');
async function main() {
try {
// get all pids for "node" processes
const pids = await getpid('node');
} catch (err) {
handle_error(err);
return;
}
if (!pids.length) {
return process_not_found();
}
for (const pid of pids) {
await do_something_with_pid(pid);
}
}
FAQs
Get the pid of running processes on any platform
The npm package getpid receives a total of 25 weekly downloads. As such, getpid popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that getpid demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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