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I have a process that I'd like to kill. Doing a "ps -fu myusername" gives me:

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UID           PID    PPID  C  STIME TTY     TIME         CMD
myusername    5443   1     0  10:05 ?       00:00:00     /bin/sh    /some/path/crap.sh  -s /yet/another/path/parentProcess
myusername    5593   5443  0  10:05 ?       00:00:00     /usr/java/jdk1.5/jre/bin/java  -somethingToDoWithParent

I'd like to be able to pkill or kill these two processes using a single command. The second process is the child process of the first. Using trial and error, I was able to kill just the parent process using:

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ps -fp $(pgrep -u myusername crap)

I just don't know regular expressions to the point where I can single out this process by "parentProcess" because I think it's an argument and not the actual process name.

If anyone knows the correct command to kill the parent and child, I'd appreciate it. A little explanation of the command would be cool if you have the time. I think I'll be able to figure out any piping.

Try this:

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ps -ef| egrep `ps -ef| grep myusername | grep " 1 " | awk '{ print $2 }'` | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9

Good try, but it didn't work. It returned the following:

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egrep: 1043: No such file or directory
egrep: 1065: No such file or directory
usage: kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] pid ...
       kill -l [ signal ]