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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing a variable to kill command Post 302701809 by sjmolloy on Monday 17th of September 2012 10:55:26 AM
Old 09-17-2012
Passing a variable to kill command
I have a script that kicks off several processes in the background and stored their pids in a variable as follows:
Code:
PID_DUMP_TRAN=$PID_DUMP_TRAN" "$!

so I then have a list of pids
If I echo $PID_DUMP_TRAN I get back a list of pids e.g. 8210 8211 8212

However I then want to kill all these processes at the end of the script. I have tried:
kill $PID_DUMP_TRAN
kill `echo $PID_DUMP_TRAN `
and kill `echo "$PID_DUMP_TRAN"`

I know this is me mis-understanding how to use the variable rather than the kill command and its a fairly basic misunderstanding at that but can anybody point me in the right direction,
I just keep getting an error saying the Arguments must be jobs or PIDS!!!
Last edited by Corona688; 09-17-2012 at 12:27 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9

kill

KILL(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   KILL(1)

NAME

       kill, broke - print commands to kill processes

SYNOPSIS

       kill name

       broke

DESCRIPTION

       Kill  prints  commands  that  will cause all processes called name and owned by the current user to be terminated.  Use the send command of
       81/2(1), or pipe the output of kill into rc(1) to execute the commands.

       Kill suggests sending a kill note to the process; the same message delivered to the process's ctl file (see proc(3)) is a surer,  if  heavy
       handed, kill, but is necessary if the offending process is ignoring notes.

       Broke  prints  commands	that  will  cause all processes in the Broken state and owned by the current user to go away.  When a process dies
       because of an error caught by the system, it may linger in the Broken state to allow examination with a debugger.  Executing  the  commands
       printed by broke lets the system reclaim the resources used by the broken processes.

SOURCE

       /rc/bin/kill
       /rc/bin/broke

SEE ALSO

       ps(1), stop(1), proc(3)

																	   KILL(1)
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