From: hrishy (hrishys at domain yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue 16 Jul 2002 - 11:43:35 IST
Hi Colm
I appreciate your views .But its not a howmeork
question...
regards
Hrishy
--- Colm Buckley <colm at domain tuatha.org> wrote: > On Tue 16
Jul 2002 11:26, hrishy wrote:
>
> > 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 ?
>
> The answer to this particular question is "killall".
>
> However, we have here a recurrence of what I call
> the "hrishy homework
> problem"; you seem to ask a question as soon as a
> problem arises
> without making any real effort to solve the problem
> for yourself - in
> this case, it would have taken less than ten seconds
> to find the
> "killall" program using "man -k":
>
> ogma:colm ~ (2) % man -k kill
> [...]
> killall (1) - kill processes by name
> [...]
>
> ... and there it is. Learn to use "man -k" and
> Google before diving
> straight into ILUG. You really will learn more this
> way.
>
> Colm
>
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