[ILUG] kill process by name

[John Reilly]

Don't try killall in Solaris though - I made that mistake once...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fergal Moran" <fergal.moran at wasptech.com>
To: "hrishy" <hrishys at yahoo.co.uk>; <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:23 AM
Subject: RE: [ILUG] kill process by name


> 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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