From: Aaron Morris (aaronmorris@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 12:43:30 EST
Use this as your script:
ps auxw|grep "$1"|grep -v grep|awk {'print $2'}|xargs kill
It's just that simple.
Wesley Joyce wrote:
> I am attempting to write a script that would kill any processes using the
> kill command after the script greps' for the process(es) arguments.
>
> For example, I have these process that I would like kill both by running
> one script that greps for 'adminex:/' for example.
>
> root 104368 90326 0 Nov 19 - 0:01 rcp -rp ./banner adminex:/
> root 75010 73126 0 Nov 28 - 0:08 rcp -rp ./users adminex:/
>
> Here is the core of script so far -
> kill 'ps -efo "%p %a" | grep $1 | cut -c 1-6'
>
> # !grepkill.shl adminex
>
> !grepkill.shl: ps -efo "%p %a" | grep $1 | cut -c 1-6: Specify a process
> identifier or a %job number.
>
> If I just run the script without the kill part, I get a list of all the
> PIDS
>
> 10000
> 10001
> 10002
>
> which is good, but it fails on the kill part. I know it has to be
> something simple. What am I doing wrong? I am sure someone has a more
> elegant script(s).
>
>
>
> Wesley Joyce, Systems Administrator
> Center for Administrative Computing (CAC), IT
> University of the Virgin Islands
> #2 John Brewers Bay, St. Thomas, USVI 00802-9990
> (340) 693-1469 (voice) / (340) 693-1465 (fax)
> http://www.uvi.edu
>
> "If you can't explain it simply, than you don't know it well enough. -
> Unknown."
>
-- Aaron W Morris
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