The [ ] are special in shell and need to be escaped.
Say you have a file program in your current directory, then the shell replaces [p]rogram by the matching program, and the grep can find its own arguments in the ps args.
Safe is grep "[p]rogram". (It's a good habit to always put the grep argument in quotes!)
Another problem is that xargs runs the kill without arguments if nothing matches.
Suggestion
Letting awk do the grep is not only more efficient, it also provides means to further add conditions for certain columns.
Last edited by MadeInGermany; 10-21-2017 at 05:21 AM..
Hello,
First let me start by saying I have searched the forum and read all the SUID stuff but it is not in the neighborhood I am looking for.
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but
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Please provide the information?
Regards,
Rajesh (3 Replies)
Hi,
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Radhika. (2 Replies)
for i in 'ps -f | grep textedit'
do
kill $i
done
I wrote this but it wont work.
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