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# Find All Running Processes of a Program
- URL: https://mfitzp.ghost.io/find-all-running-processes-of-a-program/
- Published: 2011-11-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-23T21:32:12.000Z
- Description: Find the pids of all instances/processes of a given program running on your system
- Author: Martin Fitzpatrick
- Tags: Tutorials, Bash, #Import 2024-03-14 08:20, #Import 2026-08-24 14:26

Open a terminal and enter the following – 

```bash
ps ax | grep "firefox"
```

 ...replacing 'firefox' with the name of the program you are looking for.

> *The columns in the output are as follows: (1) pid 'process id' (2) tty (3) process state - see `man ps` (4) process runtime (5) process command.*