[ILUG] kill process by name

[hrishy]

Hi All

I want to kill a process by name...for example if
there are 100 process .what i want to do is


ps -ef |grep $1 |awk '{print $1}'|xargs kill -9

the trouble is how to make grep substitute $1 by a
process name ?

regards
Hrishy

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