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Old 11-03-2008
Kill a process from a grep
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?
# 2  
Old 11-03-2008
from a working example to killall -9 nobody owned processes:
kill -9 `ps aux|grep perl|grep nobody|awk '{print $2}'`

from your example:
kill -9 `ps -A | grep firefox | kill $1`

or why not just killall -9 firefox ?

Someone with more experience will have some input too! Smilie
# 3  
Old 11-03-2008
Try this:

Code:
kill `ps -A|awk '/firefox/{print $1}'`

# 4  
Old 11-04-2008
Thx for your replies!
The last one works fine! ^^
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