Something I use a lot instead of cut is awk '{ print $x }'  where $x is
the column from the left.  your ps command would look something like:

ps aux |grep relaydelay |awk '{ print $2 }' |xargs -n /bin/kill -15

to do it in a for loop

for each in `ps aux |grep relaydelay |awk '{ print $2 }'`; do
/bin/kill -15 $each
done

for each (temp shell variable) in `<command>` (pipe output of a command
into the for loop and iterate each item through the $each variable); do
/bin/kill -15 $each (kill each instance of your command output)
done

Just some of the things I do almost daily.  Not necessarily to kill a
process pkill is better for that, but find, creating and moving files is
made easier by this.  As you learn the command line it really is a great
tool.



On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 10:35 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 10:14 -0700, Kevin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 10:07 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 20:13 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > if I want to kill a running process, I need to find it and kill it.
> > > 
> > > /bin/ps aux|grep relaydelay|cut -c9-14|/usr/bin/xargs -n 1 /bin/kill -15
> > > 
> > > seems to work for locating a process in ps and sending it a kill -15
> > > 
> > > Is there a better way?
> > 
> > How about `pkill -15 relaydelay`?
> > 
> ----
> ::::blush::::
> 
> that was too simple !
> 
> gosh am I dumb...I couldn't get it die with kill arguments
> because /usr/bin/perl is the app - pkill (file in memory banks).
> 
> Thanks - there goes the first command I did using both cut & xargs
> either individually or separately by myself - without plug support.
> 
> Craig
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