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 $1 | cut -c1-5 | grep -o [0-9]* | xargs kill > or kill -9 > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Bryan O'Neal > > wrote: > > Change the direction of the kill input. It may be simpler to use > pkill. > Maybe just change up the script to take in the input as a var and > then pkill > -f "$var" > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > ] On Behalf > Of wayne > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:43 PM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Simple Script issue..?? > > 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? > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your 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 your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss