On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:42 PM, wayne 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?
> ---------------------------------------------------
for i in `ps aux | grep $1 | awk '{ print $2 }'`; do kill $i; done
I have to use this all the time on errant oracle processes :)
David
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
--Darth Vader
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