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To: Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com>
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Subject: Re: awk<ward> 
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Jen and Luke write:
>
> 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?

Whats wrong with "/usr/bin/killall"? Its in perl.

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