Simple Script issue..?? - Thank you JAMES!

[wayne]

Going down the list of all your replies, James' was the first that did 
exactly what I was looking for.  THANK YOU TO ALL for your help.  :-)




James Mcphee wrote:
> kill won't take a list from stdout, but if you | xargs kill, then 
> it'll happily do it.
>
> ps -A | grep $1 | cut -c1-5 | grep -o [0-9]* | xargs kill
> or kill -9
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Bryan O'Neal 
> <boneal at cornerstonehome.com <mailto:boneal at cornerstonehome.com>> wrote:
>
>     Change the direction of the kill input.  It may be simpler to use
>     pkill.
>     Maybe just change up the script to take in the input as a var and
>     then pkill
>     -f "$var"
>
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>     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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