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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting kill: bad argument count Post 302706197 by alister on Wednesday 26th of September 2012 09:54:52 AM
Old 09-26-2012
If you aren't aware of their existences, most systems have pgrep and pkill, which in many cases can replace a fragile, underspecified pipeline with a more rigorous and portable simple command.

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Alister
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