Shell Programming and Scripting

kill `ps -ef |grep test.sh| grep -v grep`
stat=$?
if [ $stat -eq 0 ] # check the return code
then
       echo "  script killed at $(date +%D@%T) "
else
       echo "  script process does not exists at $(date +%D@%T) " 
fi
done

echo kill `ps -ef |grep test.sh| grep -v grep`

# a=`ps -ef |grep /usr/sbin/cron | grep -v grep`
# echo $a
root 438 1 0 Oct 20 2 g 0:02 /usr/sbin/cron

kill `ps -ef |grep test.sh | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

kill -9 `ps -ef | grep test.sh | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
stat=$?
if [ $stat -eq 0 ]
then
    echo "  script killed at $(date +%D@%T) "
else
    echo "  script process does not exists at $(date +%D@%T) " 
fi