[ILUG] ogg123 and piping commands

[Proinnsias Breathnach]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 05:25:55PM +0100, Robert Kiely wrote:
> On 13/10/06, j michaelson <jmichaelson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >1 - use top to show all the processes running on my pc
> >2 - use grep to find the line for ogg123
> >3 - somehow isolate the process id from the other information on the line
> >4 - use xargs to feed this to kill -2
> >
> >the final command should look something like....
> >
> >top -n 1 | grep ogg123 | ?????? | xargs kill -2
> 
> Don't use top, use ps and then awk '{print $2}' to print second item
> on the line i.e. PID
> 
Aaagh - the humanity !!!

killall -2 ogg123

voila !