Hi all,

I'm new to shell scripting, but enjoying myself!

I'm trying to execute the following statement:
alias evol="ps -AH | grep evol | cut -d' ' -f2 | kill -9"

As you might guess. I'm wanting to use a single command 'evol' to kill all the processes containing the phrase 'evol' (having some trouble with my evolution-exchange connector which keeps hanging on address look-ups. Anyway - killing evolution isn't enough - I thenm have to kill all the other processes, usually 4 of them. the repetition of searching for the pids and then killing them is getting to me ).

I find the bit up until the last pipe is fine. It produces a nice little list of pids to kill. After that though, kill throws an error. I suspect its something to do with the format of the list I'm trying to pipe to it...

Any help?

Regards, Mark