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From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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>>>>> Jen and Luke writes:

 > Hi, 
 > We are trying to make a command to kill something based on its name,
 > someone posted the instructions awhile back, but this is as far as we
 > got...  
 > ps -ax | grep "string" | grep -v grep

>From my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xstartup file:

P=`ps -x|grep [x]loadimage|awk '{print $1}'`
if [ X$P != X ]; then
    kill $P
fi

Jean-Marc
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