[Techtalk] Kill question
Gina Lanik
geekgrrl at geekgrrl.priv.at
Wed Sep 24 12:35:53 EST 2003
Better late than never, still catching up on my mails...
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:11:45PM -0700, Tabatha Marshall wrote:
> Well thank you EVERYBODY for the overwhelmingly helpful responses!
>
> We did a little something based on what Tricia wrote, created a
> "killevo" command and put in my bin directory:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> function kill_name {
> ps -aef | grep "$1" | grep "$USER" | awk '{print $"2"}' | xargs kill;
> }
>
> kill_name evolution
> kill_name gconfd
> kill_name bonobo
^^^^^^
Since you know the names of the programms you want to kill you might also
want to look into 'killall'.
Cheers,
Gina
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