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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Killing specific process Post 302142155 by porter on Wednesday 24th of October 2007 05:46:20 PM
Old 10-24-2007
Code:
#!/bin/sh

PROGRAM=$1

matches()
{
        if test "$1" = "$PROGRAM"
        then
                return 0
        fi

        return 1;
}

ps -e | while read PID TTY TIME CMD
do
        if matches $CMD
        then
                echo $PID
        fi
done

save this as a script, then run with program name as argument
 

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card [OPTION]... PROGRAM... DESCRIPTION
Print a reference card of the PROGRAMs thanks to their inline help. OPTIONS
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