[ILUG] kill process by name

[Philip Reynolds]

Kenn Humborg's [kenn at bluetree.ie] 31 lines of wisdom included:
> > hrishy wrote:
> > ps -ao pid,args | grep 'command' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
> 
> I've seen this kind of thing a lot, and it's always
> bugged me...
> 
> There is nothing to prevent the grep command itself being killed
> before it finishes.  When I'm doing this by hand, I always
> do:
> 
>    ps ax | grep something | grep -v grep | ...


what would be quicker (and more elegant) would be

ps ax | grep "[s]omething" | ...

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