Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:56:08 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: awk<ward> Message-ID: <199703160256.UAA16615@nexgen.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com> of "Sat, 15 Mar 1997 17:33:31 EST." <332B23BB.41C67EA6@servtech.com>
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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. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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