[ILUG] ogg123 and piping commands

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:25:55 +0100
  | From: "Robert Kiely" <robert.kiely at gmail.com>
  | 
  | On 13/10/06, j michaelson <jmichaelson at gmail.com> wrote:
  | > 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

 ignoring that the killall(1) approach is, probably,
 for the situation described, better, you can use
 awk(1) to do more than just extract the PID (not
 tested, but the intent should be clear):

   ps -eo pid,cmd | awk '/ogg123/ { print "kill -2", $1 }' | bash

cheers!
	-blf-
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