The pipe symbol on the left means input.
But you want to pass the output to the kill command.
Then, the kill command works with arguments, not with an input stream. So you need the xargs program to convert the input stream to arguments.
Code:
pgrep foo | xargs kill
As mentioned, if pgrep does not find anything then kill complaints of missing arguments.
Therefore, and for the sake of simplicity:
Hi All,
I am unable to kill a process using kill command. I am using HP-UX system. I have tried with kill -9 and i have root privilages.
How can i terminate this daemon ? ? ?
Regards,
Vijay Hegde (3 Replies)
Hi all
i have simple c program , when i wish to kill the app
im using kill(0,-9) , but it seams this command don't do any thing and the program.
just ignore it .
what im doing wrong here ?
im using HP-UX ia64
Thanks (9 Replies)
Hi, I'm trying to get this script to work on an AIX 5.3 box, I couldn't get pgrep for AIX, I also realize that ps works differently on the IBM boxes. Could anybody just give me the specifics of a work around for my problem, I'll adjust the whole script:
#!/bin/bash
# applabs.com
#to do:
#... (3 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have a strange behaviour
In my c program i use this line:
int retval = system("pgrep encoder");
while i expect retval to contain 0,1,2,3
i get 256.
did i do something wrong?
thanks,
Alex (2 Replies)
I'm trying to figure out how to use pgrep to pull the arguments of a process.
Given:
root 308 1 0 00:00 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /some/random/path/somescript.sh -flag /another/path/blahI can get the pid (308) using this command:
pgrep shHowever, what if I wanted to pull by "somescript.sh"... (4 Replies)
Hi! I need to get PID of some particular process and I wonder if I can use pgrep tool for this purpose. The problem is that pgrep doesn't perform pattern matching on the whole command line, even if I use -f key. Parsing output of ps command is not quite convenient... Also deamon, which PID I need... (2 Replies)
Good afternoon
I need to KILL a process in a single command sentence, for example:
kill -9 `ps -aef | grep 'CAL255.4ge' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
That sentence Kills the process ID corresponding to the program CAL255.4ge.
However it is possible that the same program... (6 Replies)
I have setup SSH keys . Trying to grep to get PID of remote jvm's .
this is what am doing
ssh -q testuser1@myhost.com 'PID1=pgrep -fl testapp1|awk "{print $1}";PID2=pgrep -fl testapp2|awk "{print $1}" '
echo $PID1, $PID2
it throws error"sh: -fl: command not found"
---------- Post updated... (1 Reply)
I would like to find all of the PIDs of processes which are not associated with a terminal and started by CRON.
When I do the ps aux | less command, I see in the TTY field a lot of processes with ? character
I would like to get those processes ID, is there a way to do that with pgrep?
... (1 Reply)
I am searching for a process that should be up and running. Im using the following command
ps -ef | grep elasticsearch
to get
elastic+ 1673 1 0 Jan29 ? 05:08:56 /bin/java -Xms4g -Xmx4g -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Junaid Subhani
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
kill
KILL(1) BSD General Commands Manual KILL(1)NAME
kill -- terminate or signal a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [-s signal_name] pid ...
kill -l [exit_status]
kill -signal_name pid ...
kill -signal_number pid ...
DESCRIPTION
The kill utility sends a signal to the process(es) specified by the pid operand(s).
Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.
The options are as follows:
-s signal_name
A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM.
-l [exit_status]
Display the name of the signal corresponding to exit_status. exit_status may be the exit status of a command killed by a signal (see
the special sh(1) parameter '?') or a signal number.
If no operand is given, display the names of all the signals.
-signal_name
A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM.
-signal_number
A non-negative decimal integer, specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM.
The following pids have special meanings:
-1 If superuser, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise broadcast to all processes belonging to the user.
0 Broadcast the signal to all processes in the current process group belonging to the user.
Some of the more commonly used signals:
1 HUP (hang up)
2 INT (interrupt)
3 QUIT (quit)
6 ABRT (abort)
9 KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill)
14 ALRM (alarm clock)
15 TERM (software termination signal)
kill is a built-in to csh(1); it allows job specifiers of the form ``%...'' as arguments so process id's are not as often used as kill argu-
ments. See csh(1) for details.
SEE ALSO csh(1), pgrep(1), pkill(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigaction(2), signal(7)STANDARDS
The kill function is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A kill command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
BSD April 28, 1995 BSD