Simple Script issue..??

[James Mcphee]

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 at 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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>
> 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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