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I eventually wrote something that works... it's a little buggy but it does the job.

#!/bin/bash
process=`pgrep -U root "$1" | wc -l`
if [ $process -ge 1 ]; then
echo It is not safe to kill this...

Thanks for the responses. I have tried the examples posted but none of them seem to work. They either produce errors or kill the process regardless of the owner.

I have done a bit of reading and...

Hello all... new to these forums and a bit of a newbie with linux aswell.

I need to figure out how to write a shell script to kill a process by name as given to the script as an argument. I've...