How about using -u param of ps and here I combine two greps and awk into 1 awk script:
You should try kill -15 before using -9 as this allows the program to exit cleanly (close and flush file buffers and the like).
Edit: Also if no processes are found you probably want to avoid calling kill without a PID
One nice solution is to use xargs (if it supports the no run option):
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If your system has it (I believe most do), just use pkill:
I have backslash escaped the dot so that it is no longer a wildcard, but a literal dot. Also, I have anchored the expression to preclude substring matches. The chances that the more permissive pattern used throughout this thread will have an unfortunate effect is most likely negligible, but I draw attention to it for completeness' sake.
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Alister
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How about using -u param of ps and here I combine two greps and awk into 1 awk script:
Depending on the platform, that may not be an option. From a *BSD ps:
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-u Display information associated with the following keywords: user,
pid, %cpu, %mem, vsz, rss, tt, state, start, time, and command.
The -u option implies the -r option.
If the ps in Don's pipeline obtains the process listing after the grep processes in the pipeline have been created, the pid of grep 'CAL255.4ge, if run by wilruiz0, will be part of the result. The grep -v grep filters it out.
However, since by the time that kill is invoked the grep processes are gone, it's highly unlikely that the pid will be valid (highly unlikely, but it's not impossible that another process could have been created with that same pid).
Hi,
Do anybody experience to write a bash script in order to kill a specific process (java) after certain time of running?
eg.
java java.jar task_run.txt
I will run a java program (java.jar) which will run a long list of process (task_run.txt) one by one.
I plan to terminate the java... (5 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I have a process that I want to kill. I have tried kill-9 PID but it doesn't work. I have tried preap PID but it doesn't work too.
The parent of my process is the process whose PID is 1, so I can't kill it.
My OS is a Solaris 9.
Can anyone help me understand what's going... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need something unusual, I guess. I need to start a process, and if that process displays a specific error message, I need to kill that process and restart it.
Something like:
startprocess | grep -i "This is the specific error message" && kill $pidof(startprocess)
Explanation, I need... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have the process to kill regulary, but the PSID is dymatic change and not sure how to kill the specific process ID
Check the tradekast_rvd is running , if such process, kill the els process id
ps -e f |grep tradekast_rvd
ps -ef |grep els
then I kill els process id
... (2 Replies)
Hi
I want to write a shell script which can find the process id's of all the process and kill them eg:
ps ax | grep rv_
3015 ? S 0:00 /home/vivek/Desktop/rv_server
3020 ? S 0:00 /home/vivek/Desktop/rv_gps
3022 ? S 0:00 /home/vivek/Desktop/rv_show
... (7 Replies)
Soz im a bit newbie...
I want to do:
ps -A | grep firefox | kill $1
it should kill the pid associated, but it doesnt work.
$1 is the pid (if i do a awk {'print $1'} i get it ) , but kill doesnt take it as such...
How can i do it? (3 Replies)
I want to Kill a process without using kill command as i don't have privileges to kill the process. I know the pid and i am using Linux 2.6.9 OS. (6 Replies)
Hi all
i have simple c program , when i wish to kill the app
im using kill(0,-9) , but it seams this command don't do any thing and the program.
just ignore it .
what im doing wrong here ?
im using HP-UX ia64
Thanks (9 Replies)
Hi All,
I am unable to kill a process using kill command. I am using HP-UX system. I have tried with kill -9 and i have root privilages.
How can i terminate this daemon ? ? ?
Regards,
Vijay Hegde (3 Replies)