adb: Find PID from the adb shell

Question

I am trying to get the PID of the process INSIDE adb shell. So, I am doing adb shell which gets me to the android shell. Now, if I were to get the PID using a regular shell

Answer 1

I tried this one and it seems to work:

1.adb shell -> ps -A | grep "android.process.acore"

Answer 2

I tried this one and it seems to work:

adb shell "set "ps | grep android.process.media"; kill -9 $2"

Answer 3

Android versions starting with 6.0 already include pidof utility:

usage: pidof [-s] [-o omitpid[,omitpid...]] [NAME]...

Print the PIDs of all processes with the given names.

-s      single shot, only return one pid.
-o      omit PID(s)

Answer 4

Not sure if you can get the PID directly however you can try the following

set `ps |grep android.process.acore`
echo $2

This has the affect of setting the output of the ps command into variables $1, $2, $3 etc. The PID value is in $2