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What is the best way to get the application name when you already have the process id?

user2040037
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  • Best way would be to ask this kind of question at [Super User](https://superuser.com/), where it belongs. – f_puras Oct 05 '15 at 13:15
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    duplicate of : http://superuser.com/questions/632979/if-i-know-the-pid-number-of-a-process-how-can-i-get-its-name – nafas Oct 05 '15 at 13:17
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    Possible duplicate of [Get process name by PID](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4189717/get-process-name-by-pid) –  Oct 05 '15 at 13:24

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You can use ps:

ps -p 1337 -o comm=

Where -p is for pid and -o for the output format.

Diogo Rocha
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