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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=863492919-15062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The answer is 'yes'. It will kill all processes which match
your grep.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=863492919-15062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>ie kill n1 n2 n3 n4</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=863492919-15062005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>will kill all 4 processes</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Andrew Vong
[mailto:andrewvong@finpress.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 15 June 2005
19:18<BR><B>To:</B> Will McDonald; Purcocks, Graham; whitebox-users@beau.org;
John Haxby; Vincent Raffensberger<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [WBEL-users] Another
Shell Scripting Question<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><BR>Dear Gurus,<BR><BR>A BIG thank you to all for your contributions.
I have learnt from ALL your examples. <BR><BR>Here is what I have ended up
with:- <BR><BR><FONT color=#0000ff>ps x | grep "[s]sh -f -N" | awk '{ print $1
}' | xargs kill -p<BR><BR></FONT>I suppose this would work great if there were
only 1 process as a result of the cmd above. <BR><BR>What would happen if there
were more than 1 PID from std output? <BR><BR>Will it kill ALL PIDs that were
produced from std output?<BR><BR>Thanks again. :)<BR><BR>Best
Regards,<BR>Andrew<BR><BR><BR>At 11:28 PM 15/06/2005, Purcocks, Graham
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=arial color=#0000ff
size=2>I use<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial color=#0000ff size=2>ps -ef
| awk '{print $2}' to get the pid<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial
color=#0000ff size=2>kill -9 `ps -efw | awk '{print
$2}'`<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial color=#0000ff size=2>would do
it.<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial color=#0000ff size=2>or ps aux | awk
'{print $2}' if you want to use aux.<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Graham</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org [<A
href="mailto:whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org"
eudora="autourl">mailto:whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org</A>] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Andrew Vong<BR><B>Sent:</B> 15 June 2005 15:56<BR><B>To:</B>
whitebox-users@beau.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [WBEL-users] Another Shell
Scripting Question<BR></FONT><BR><BR>Dear Gurus,<BR><BR>Thanks for all who
responded to my previous question. It worked great! <BR><BR>I am now trying to
perform a "ps aux | grep "some regular expression" | cut -f 2 -d
......"<BR><BR>I seem to be having 2 problems. <BR><BR>1) What delimiter
should I define for cut? I've tried " " (space) but that does not work.<BR>2)
I usually get 2 processes listed. The actualy one I'm looking for and the line
I just executed. How can I exclude the 2nd process which also contains the
same "grep <I>regular expression</I>" ?<BR><BR>The above is part of a longer
one-liner command I'm trying to construct. I basically want to kill a specific
process and I just want to obtain the PID for it. So, it may end up looking
like this??<BR><BR>$ ps aux | grep "some regular expression" | cut -f 2 -d
...... | xargs kill -9<BR><BR>Or something along those lines... <BR><BR>Hope
someone out there can help me. <BR><BR>Thanks again. :)<BR><BR>Best
Regards,<BR>Andrew<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>At 11:45 PM 15/06/2005, John Haxby
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Andrew Vong wrote:<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Dear Gurus,<BR><BR>Thanks for all
who responded to my previous question. It worked great!<BR><BR>I am now
trying to perform a "ps aux | grep "some regular expression" | cut -f 2 -d
......"<BR><BR>I seem to be having 2 problems.<BR><BR>1) What delimiter
should I define for cut? I've tried " " (space) but that does not
work.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>cut -c might be better, or <FONT color=#ff0000>"awk
'{print $N}' </FONT>where "N" is the number of the column you want.<BR><BR>If
you're killing stuff, perhaps "killall" is what you want.<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">2) I usually get 2 processes
listed. The actualy one I'm looking for and the line I just executed. How
can I exclude the 2nd process which also contains the same "grep /regular
expression/" ?</BLOCKQUOTE><FONT color=#ff0000>ps -ef | grep
"f\\oo"<BR><BR></FONT>works
nicely.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Whitebox-users
mailing list<BR>Whitebox-users@beau.org<BR><A
href="http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users"
eudora="autourl">http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>At
12:41 AM 16/06/2005, Vincent Raffensberger wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=arial color=#0000ff
size=2>'pgrep' will give you the pid:<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial
color=#0000ff size=2>$ pgrep ntpd<BR>2106<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial
color=#0000ff size=2>'pkill' could kill it for you. See the
manpage.<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial color=#0000ff size=2>If you want
specific ps info for a process, you could ask for it along with the fields you
want instead of using cut or awk.<BR>See the manpage for all the different
fields you can select. Here's an example:<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=arial color=#0000ff size=2>$ ps -p `pgrep ntpd` -o
pcpu,pmem,start,pid,cmd<BR>%CPU %MEM STARTED PID
CMD<BR> 0.0 0.2 Jun 13 2106 ntpd -N -b -g -u
ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial
color=#0000ff size=2>If you must grep the full ps output, you can omit the
grep process like this:<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial color=#0000ff
size=2>$ ps aux | grep [n]tp<BR>ntp
2106 0.0 0.2 5052 5052
? SLs Jun13 0:01
ntpd -N -b -g -u ntp:ntp<BR></FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org [<A
href="mailto:whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org"
eudora="autourl">mailto:whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org</A>] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Andrew Vong<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:56 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
whitebox-users@beau.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [WBEL-users] Another Shell
Scripting Question<BR></FONT><BR><BR>Dear Gurus,<BR><BR>Thanks for all who
responded to my previous question. It worked great! <BR><BR>I am now trying to
perform a "ps aux | grep "some regular expression" | cut -f 2 -d
......"<BR><BR>I seem to be having 2 problems. <BR><BR>1) What delimiter
should I define for cut? I've tried " " (space) but that does not work.<BR>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 <I>regular expression</I>" ?<BR><BR>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??<BR><BR>$ ps aux | grep "some regular expression" | cut -f 2 -d
...... | xargs kill -9<BR><BR>Or something along those lines... <BR><BR>Hope
someone out there can help me. <BR><BR>Thanks again. :)<BR><BR>Best
Regards,<BR>Andrew<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>