[ILUG] kill process by name

[hrishy]

Hi Colm

Yep bingo ....answers my question..

regards
Hrishy 

--- Colm Buckley <colm at tuatha.org> wrote: > 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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