[WBEL-users] Another Shell Scripting Question

[Johnny Hughes]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 02:44 +0800, Andrew Vong wrote:
> Hi Vic,
> 
> Sorry, perhaps I wasn't very clear. I don't want to kill ALL processes. I 
> only want to kill the top most process.
> 
> Is there a way to limit the std output? so that only 1 PID gets sent to be 
> killed?

One way would be to pipe your list to :

| head -n 1 |

prior to the kill command


> At 02:37 AM 16/06/2005, Vic wrote:
> > > I suppose this would work great if there were only 1 process as a result of
> > > the cmd above.
> > >
> > > What would happen if there were more than 1 PID from std output?
> > >
> > > Will it kill ALL PIDs that were produced from std output?
> >
> >man killall
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Vic.

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