Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 18:21:08 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: Jen and Luke <isis@servtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk<ward> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970316182022.2031A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <332B23BB.41C67EA6@servtech.com>
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If you are running FreeBSD 2.2 .. try the "killall" command. If not, grab it from someone running it, or ask and I'll mail it to you (its a perl script). Cya. Adrian. On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, 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? > -- > Jen, Luke, Rusty <M2>, Ruckus <U2>, Telly <tiel>, and 4 cats >
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