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Let's say I am trying to find out how many times someone has logged into the machine. Use last to display all the different logins, several names pop up, some multiple times. All I have been able to...

-aux errors for me, here's what I have now

ps | awk ' /program/ {print $1} '

This is outputting the PID, isn't there a way to store the number in a variable rather than print it, maybe then...

i have also tried
ps | kill | awk
I get kill error and then the PID prints at the end =(

edit:

also if I manually kill the process after, the shell closes...if there's a much easier way of...

Hi all, I have a program and I'm trying to kill it. I'm probably going the longest way around of doing it but now that I've tried to get this to work for a few hours I'd appreciate some help :)
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era: there's 6720 files in the directory, and every file has a number that i'm trying to pull, and each number is the same, the 1317401 when i put that into a regular calc i get the 8.8billion...

Well it is a rather large number:8852934720

1317401 * 6720

is what it boils down to.

isn't $NF the number of fields per line? I ran this and got

7.67563e+10

how does one specify the last field of a line? If I could do that I think I would just have to substitute whatever...

Hey all I'm working on a script that will scour a directory of 6000+ files for a line that at the end has a number.

Something like 'The number of outputs is: 39200'

I'm trying to devise a...