[WBEL-users] Another Shell Scripting Question

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 22:55 +0800, Andrew Vong wrote:
> 
> Dear Gurus,
> 
> Thanks for all who responded to my previous question. It worked
> great! 
> 
> I am now trying to perform a "ps aux | grep "some regular expression"
> | cut -f 2 -d ......"
> 
> I seem to be having 2 problems. 
> 
> 1) What delimiter should I define for cut? I've tried " " (space) but
> that does not work.
> 2) I usually get 2 processes listed. The actualy one I'm looking for
> and the line I just executed. How can I exclude the 2nd process which
> also contains the same "grep regular expression" ?


other_stuff | grep -v grep 

> 
> The above is part of a longer one-liner command I'm trying to
> construct. I basically want to kill a specific process and I just want
> to obtain the PID for it. So, it may end up looking like this??
> 
> $ ps aux | grep "some regular expression" | cut -f 2 -d ...... | xargs
> kill -9
> 
> Or something along those lines... 
> 
> Hope someone out there can help me. 
> 
> Thanks again. :)
> 
> Best Regards,
> Andrew
> 
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