Re: [ILUG] kill process by name

From: Chris Higgins (chris.higgins at domain hts.horizon.ie)
Date: Tue 16 Jul 2002 - 11:52:02 IST

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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:26:58 +0100 (BST)
hrishy <hrishys at domain yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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

man killall

KILLALL(1) User Commands KILLALL(1)

NAME
       killall - kill processes by name

>
>
> 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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