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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: awk<ward>
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"
To: adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au (Adrian Chadd)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 18:01:01 +0100 (MET)
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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
> > 
> 
>