Find pid of a certain ssh instance

Question

There can be more than one instance of ssh running:

$ ps aux | grep ssh
cpn       6098  0.0  0.0  58196  2032 ?        S    10:08   0:01 ssh cz -nNCTR 5433:localhost4:5432
root      6313  0.0  0.0  64072  1168 ?        Ss   12:22   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root      6504  0.0  0.0  97816  3856 ?        Ss   15:48   0:00 sshd: cpn [priv] 
cpn       6508  0.0  0.0  97816  1780 ?        S    15:49   0:00 sshd: cpn@pts/0  
cpn       6552  0.0  0.0  57680   936 ?        Ss   16:16   0:00 ssh -fNL 5433:localhost4:5433 cz
cpn       6554  0.0  0.0 103236   860 pts/0    S+   16:16   0:00 grep ssh

pidof returns all running ssh pids:

$ pidof ssh
6552 6098

I need to find the pid of the one with the reverse connection (-nNCTR).

Solution

Give pgrep a go:

pgrep -f 'ssh .* -nNCTR'

Comments

[cha0site]

have you tried pgrep?

[David Airapetyan]

Use ps axu | grep '[n]NCTR' to avoid the second grep. Better yet, use pgrep.