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Old 07-11-2012
Automation of "Kill script by name"
The following "NAME" is the keyword to use to kill all processes containing it. While the command is very useful, it is user-unfriendly to type it in terminal. I've tried alias and make it a shell script but as NAME is inside awk so the problem becomes complicated. Could anybody advise?

Code:
ps -ef | awk '/NAME/{print $2}' | xargs kill

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-11-2012 at 06:19 AM.. Reason: code tags
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Old 07-11-2012
You can user variable instead of alias.....
# 3  
Old 07-11-2012
User variable works for pattern but not awk
Usage of pattern is good but awk still doesn't know what $2 means now. What should $2 be replaced in a shell script then?
Code:
pattern=$1                                                                                                                                                                        
#ps -ef | awk '/$pattern/{print $2}' | xargs kill                                                                                                                                 
echo "ps -ef | awk '/$pattern/{print $2}' | xargs kill"

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Last edited by vbe; 07-11-2012 at 08:34 AM..
# 4  
Old 07-11-2012
Bug try this.....
Code:
 
var="jumper_2.sh"
$ ps -ef | awk -v VD=$var '/VD/{print $2 }'
6361
$ echo "kill -9 `ps -ef | awk -v VD=$var '/VD/{print $2 }'`"
kill -9 6361

# 5  
Old 07-11-2012
Please don't suggest kill -9 usage.

-9 switch should only be used in extreme situations....
# 6  
Old 07-12-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pamu
Code:
 
var="jumper_2.sh"
$ ps -ef | awk -v VD=$var '/VD/{print $2 }'
6361
$ echo "kill -9 `ps -ef | awk -v VD=$var '/VD/{print $2 }'`"
kill -9 6361

Thank you for providing the complete code but I don't quite get how it differs from mine. In my previous code, I made "var" as the pattern to match. Now it seems that you make it a shell script? And then I don't know whether you type in 6361 or it is written in the script. Sorry that I cannot test the code because kill is too damaging and I can't risk killing other users' processes.
# 7  
Old 07-12-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by watashi
The following "NAME" is the keyword to use to kill all processes containing it. While the command is very useful, it is user-unfriendly to type it in terminal. I've tried alias and make it a shell script but as NAME is inside awk so the problem becomes complicated. Could anybody advise?

Code:
ps -ef | awk '/NAME/{print $2}' | xargs kill

Just use:
Code:
pkill -f NAME

To identify the processes that would be killed:
Code:
pgrep -f NAME

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