Comments on: How to Find a Process Name Using PID Number in Linux

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 08:11:21 +0000

@Ren

It works just fine, however, you need to specify process PID , for instance:

top -b -n 1 -p 2458 | tail -1 | awk ‘{print $NF}’

I know this is what you meant, am simply trying to remind users(especially newbies) who may run the command just as it is above, to know that the -p flag actually requires an argument(process ID).

Many thanks for the wonderful tip and always following us.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 05:03:56 +0000

In reply to Ren Yuntao.

@Ren,

Thanks for the sharing the tip, hope it will helpful to other Linux users as well..

By: Ren Yuntao

Ren Yuntao — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:44:26 +0000

Another way to find out a process name using PID:

$ top -b -n 1 -p | tail -1 | awk ‘{print $NF}’