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02-06-2013

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If your system has it (I believe most do), just use pkill:

Code:

pkill -9 -u wilruiz0 '^CAL255\.4ge$'

I have backslash escaped the dot so that it is no longer a wildcard, but a literal dot. Also, I have anchored the expression to preclude substring matches. The chances that the more permissive pattern used throughout this thread will have an unfortunate effect is most likely negligible, but I draw attention to it for completeness' sake.

Regards,
Alister

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Chubler_XL

How about using -u param of ps and here I combine two greps and awk into 1 awk script:

Code:

kill -9 `ps -fu wilruiz0 | awk '/[C]AL255.4ga/ {print $2}'`

Depending on the platform, that may not be an option. From a *BSD ps:

Quote:

-u Display information associated with the following keywords: user,
pid, %cpu, %mem, vsz, rss, tt, state, start, time, and command.
The -u option implies the -r option.

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Alister

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