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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 19:18:17 -0600
To: Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com>
From: Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net>
Subject: Re: awk<ward>
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At 17:33 15-03-97 -0500, Jen and Luke wrote:
>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
>
>We know we need to pipe to awk to print the pid, but aren't sure of how
>to do it... Oh, and the man page sucks...:)  How do we nominate it for
>the worst man page award?

The nomination question will have to be answered by someone else.  However,
the kill question I can handle.

Try this puppy on for size.  It assumes you have a one word "string" to
identify your intended victim(s).

Lee

----- start of killem script -----
#!/bin/csh -f
# name: killem
#
# This script kills all processes with $1 in the ps line.  If a kill
# signal is needed, it is $2
#

#
# check for word to search for
#
if ($1 == "") then
  echo "usage: $0 word [signal]"
  exit
  endif

#
# get list of process ids
#
set pids = `ps -auxwww|grep $1|grep -v grep|grep -v $0|awk '{print $2}'`

#
# tell me about it
#
if ("$pids" == "") then
  echo "nothing to kill"
  exit
  endif

echo "killing "$pids

#
# do the dirty deed
#
kill $2 $pids

#
# done
#

----- end of killem script -----