Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 19:18:17 -0600 From: Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net> To: Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk<ward> Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970316011817.006a41e8@jump.net>
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At 17:33 15-03-97 -0500, Jen and Luke wrote: >Hi, >We are trying to make a command to kill something based on its name, >someone posted the instructions awhile back, but this is as far as we >got... >ps -ax | grep "string" | grep -v grep > >We know we need to pipe to awk to print the pid, but aren't sure of how >to do it... Oh, and the man page sucks...:) How do we nominate it for >the worst man page award? The nomination question will have to be answered by someone else. However, the kill question I can handle. Try this puppy on for size. It assumes you have a one word "string" to identify your intended victim(s). Lee ----- start of killem script ----- #!/bin/csh -f # name: killem # # This script kills all processes with $1 in the ps line. If a kill # signal is needed, it is $2 # # # check for word to search for # if ($1 == "") then echo "usage: $0 word [signal]" exit endif # # get list of process ids # set pids = `ps -auxwww|grep $1|grep -v grep|grep -v $0|awk '{print $2}'` # # tell me about it # if ("$pids" == "") then echo "nothing to kill" exit endif echo "killing "$pids # # do the dirty deed # kill $2 $pids # # done # ----- end of killem script -----
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