Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am trying to automate the killing of named processes of which I found a good solution here on the forums but as I am pretty much a begginer to linux I am having an issue. The code I found is:

Code:

kill $(ps -ef | nawk '/monitoreo start/ { print $2}'}

but what I want to do is replace monitoreo with a command line paramter so ideally replace it with $1 which I pass into the script. For the life of me I can't get it to work. Something like:

Code:

kill $(ps -ef | nawk '/$1 start/ { print $2}'}

But to be honest I am not sure if it's even possible. I can't seem to get any parameter declared outwith the backticks to be seen inside them

Can anyone help?

Have a look at the pkill command.

I thinks this is because $1 will no longer represent the 1st argument once inside ' '.

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Try this

Code:

ps -ef | awk '/'$1' start/ { print $2}'

Thanks will give it a try.