There are a few ways to skin the cat...
I always use awk to print out the command I want to run and then pipe to
bash to execute it.
It lets me see what it's going to do before it does it.
IE:
ps -A | grep $1 | cut -c1-5 | grep -o [0123456789]* | awk '{print "kill
"$1}'
then if it's what you want:
ps -A | grep $1 | cut -c1-5 | grep -o [0123456789]* | awk '{print "kill
"$1}'  | bash
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:42 PM, wayne <waydavis@cox.net> 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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