[ILUG] kill process by name

[Fergal Moran]

Use killall?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hrishy [mailto:hrishys at yahoo.co.uk] 
> Sent: 16 July 2002 11:27
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] kill process by name
> 
> 
> 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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