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# 1  
Old 10-09-2011
pass an awk variable to kill
Does anyone know of a way to do something similar to this with awk and kill? I want to create the variable in awk and pass that variable to kill.

Code:
ps -ef | grep -i chromium | awk '{$2=x}' | kill -9 $x 2>/dev/null

# 2  
Old 10-09-2011
You don't need to pass variable.

Code:
ps -ef | grep -i chromium | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9



BTW, Is it really necessary to use SIGKILL (-9) ?
Also, Your command would also list the grep invocation I guess.
# 3  
Old 10-09-2011
Is killing the chromium is all you want to do? If so try this
Code:
pgrep chromium | xargs kill -9

--ahamed
# 4  
Old 10-10-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by anchal_khare
You don't need to pass variable.

Code:
ps -ef | grep -i chromium | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

BTW, Is it really necessary to use SIGKILL (-9) ?
Also, Your command would also list the grep invocation I guess.
For some programs yes Smilie.

xargs is the easy way :P. I wanna do it the complicated way Smilie.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ahamed101
Is killing the chromium is all you want to do? If so try this
Code:
pgrep chromium | xargs kill -9

--ahamed
Without xargs please Smilie. I wanna do it the complicated way Smilie.
# 5  
Old 10-10-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by COKEDUDE
I wanna do it the complicated way Smilie.

Without xargs please Smilie. I wanna do it the complicated way Smilie.

The most complicated way is try and discover yourself. Isn't it? Smilie
# 6  
Old 10-10-2011
If the OP decides to use something simpler later, some OS provides pkill Smilie

Code:
pkill <process_name>

# 7  
Old 10-10-2011
then this one?
Code:
kill -9 `pgrep chromium`

or

Code:
die chromium die!

SmilieSmilieSmilie

--ahamed
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