[ILUG] kill process by name

[Colm MacCárthaigh]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:16:20PM +0100, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> I renice my setiathome processes when I'm AFK . I setup the renice command as 
> follows:
> ps auxw|grep setiathome| awk '{ if ($11  == "setiathome") print $2 }' | xargs 
> echo renice 20

with pgrep that would be:

	pgrep setiathome | xargs echo renice 20

personally, I use;

 	renice 20 `pgrep setiathome`

but that's me :)

pgrep has two features which make this safe:

	"The  pattern  is  normally  only  matched against the process name.
         When -f is set, the full command line is used."

and

	"The running pgrep or pkill process will never report itself as
         a match"
 
These problems are common :)

> Now, if someone could show me how to stuff the renice command into the command 
> line history/buffer from a shell script I wouldn't have to copy/paste it 
> afterwards.

in bash; you can use history -s to get thigns into a history, but since that's
a different shell, it won't work. You could source it instead. Why are
you doing this though ?

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