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 $1 | cut -c1-5 | grep -o [0-9]* | xargs kill
> or kill -9
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Bryan O'Neal
> <boneal@cornerstonehome.com <mailto:boneal@cornerstonehome.com>> wrote:
>
> Change the direction of the kill input. It may be simpler to use
> pkill.
> Maybe just change up the script to take in the input as a var and
> then pkill
> -f "$var"
>
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> Of wayne
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> 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?
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