Simple Script issue..??

[David]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:42 PM, wayne wrote:

> ps -A | grep $1 | cut -c1-5 | grep -o [0123456789]* | kill
>
>
> WILL NOT WORK.
>
> I want to run the above script "whack" like this:   whack  kicker
> which should kill the process "kicker"
>  But it chokes at the "kill" part and I do not know what I'm
> doing.....  and doing wrong  :-)
>
> Anybody?
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for i in `ps aux | grep $1 | awk '{ print $2 }'`; do kill $i; done

I have to use this all the time on errant oracle processes :)
David

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