Why not: ps aux | grep relaydelay | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -15 seems simpler to type Bill Warner spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > 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 `` (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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- > Bill Warner > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss