Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:49:20 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, housley@thehousleys.net Subject: Re: killall question Message-ID: <20000527144920.WNSL22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20000527093625.A1557@nc.rr.com>
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On 27-May-00 Randall Hopper wrote:
> housley@thehousleys.net:
> |Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> said:
> |
> |> I have a script I run named "newroot". I want to kill it with killall.
> |>
> |> > ps -ax | grep newroot
> |> 842 1 rhh /bin/sh /home/rhh/bin/newroot 360
> |>
> |You will have to do something like
> |
> |kill `ps -ax | grep newroot | sed -e '^[0-9]*'`
>
> Ok. I thought I'd at least try to use the system version, but sounds like
> it's just not as flexible as killall's on other systems.
>
> Here's the shell script I settled on to override the default /usr/bin/killall:
>
> ps -x | grep "$1" | egrep -v "grep|$0" | awk '{print $1;}'
% killall grep
> Thanks for the help.
Good luck. :)
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