09-22-2009
Thanks very much - that's exactly what I wanted to do.
I have subsequently worked out I can achieve the same result with 'killall -9 -ir evol*' which is briefer. However, your answer addresses the underlying question I had of how to get a the listed (piped) results to be loped through.
Thanks very much!!!
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