[ILUG] kill process by name

[Colm Buckley]

On Tue 16 Jul 2002 11:39, hrishy wrote:

> Nope i wouldnt like to have a killall...i would like
> to extend that script i emntioned...

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

Well, $1 will expand to the first argument of the shell, if this is
run as a script, so in a sense you've already answered your own
question.

Put the above command into a shell script file (with "#!/bin/sh" as
the first line), make it executable and run it with the process name
you want as the first argument.

You might at some stage want to add logic to detect process names with
spaces in them, and so on.

          Colm

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