Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 18:01:01 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au (Adrian Chadd) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk<ward> Message-ID: <199703161701.SAA02254@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970316182022.2031A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> from Adrian Chadd at "Mar 16, 97 06:21:08 pm"
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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.
>
Or you can use
awk '{print $2}'
Wolfgang
>
> 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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