Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process

[Ben Leslie <benno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Terry!

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Terry Collins wrote:

> Hello Sluggers
> 
> list process | grep desired-process | kill desired-process
> 
> Can someone tell me the format of the last part?
> 
> ps axf | grep process | kill -9 "process???"

ps axf | grep netscape | sed s/^\ *// | cut -f1 -d" " | xargs kill -9

seems to work for me.

kill takes the PID afaik, which is the first argument of ps axf.

The pid is right justified so I strip the spaces off the front, and then use
cut to get the first field (being the PID).

This works, _BUT_ I'm sure there is another (probably better) way of doing
it.

Cheers,

Benno