Little bash programming

Jeffrey Pyne plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:21:35 -0700


...or:

  pkill mozilla

I usually precede that with a

  pgrep -l mozilla

Just to preview what I will be killing.  Just another way to skin this
particular cat.

~Jeff

On Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:00 PM, Robert Bushman sent:

> Hmmm, important safety tip - the right way to do this is:
> 
> $ ps -a | grep mozilla
> 
>   VERIFY THAT YOU WANT ALL DISPLAYED PROCESSES TO DIE!
> 
> $ kill `ps -a | grep mozilla | awk {'print $1'}`
>