[ILUG] kill process by name

[Ruairí Newman]

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 11:26, hrishy wrote:
> 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
> 

kill -9 `/sbin/pidof processname` is what I usually use in these cases.

/sbin/pidof is a symlink to /sbin/killall5, at least in Mandrake, not
having heard anybody else even mention it, I wonder whether or not it is
available in other distros?

R.


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