[ILUG] kill process by name

From: hrishy (hrishys at domain yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue 16 Jul 2002 - 11:27:03 IST

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Hi All

I want to kill a process by name...for example if
there are 100 process .what i want to do is

ps -ef |grep $1 |awk '{print $1}'|xargs kill -9

the trouble is how to make grep substitute $1 by a
process name ?

regards
Hrishy

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