Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:57:25 -0700 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: vogelke+unix@pobox.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kill via Cron... Message-ID: <86r5m9yk0q.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <20100420183859.C52D9BE09@bsd118.wpafb.af.mil> (Karl Vogel's message of "Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:59 -0400 (EDT)") References: <002c01cae05e$7eab3ea0$7c01bbe0$@wakefield.sch.uk> <20100420183859.C52D9BE09@bsd118.wpafb.af.mil>
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>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Vogel <vogelke@hcst.com> writes:
>>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:52:58 +0100,
>>> "mcoyles" <mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk> said:
M> kill -9 `ps ax | grep backup | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
And you don't have to remember grep -v grep if you remember
to use "ps axc" (note the c), since arguments won't show up so the
arguments to grep won't generate a false positive.
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