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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