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Old 05-03-2011
Shell Scripts - Killing a job....
Hello all,

I need to write a shell script that does the following; Allows you to kill a job,(1) listing only the jobs you own, (2) asks for which job to kill, (3) kills the job and (4) confirms kill...

I am not sure if I need to first run the job command and pipe it with kill? Which options to include to make it most efficient and if this can be done all in one script? IF I should be using kill at all? Any help would be greatly appreciated.... I am struggling with this one. Thanks in advance, citizencro
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Old 05-04-2011
sounds like homework....

what have you got so far?
written any code at all?


read up on "kill" command and the "ps" command.
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Old 05-04-2011
ok I know that I can display all running processes with ps -ux. I can display only the processes that I am running by ps -U citizencro. I can kill what process I want with with kill -9 %pid and it will display that it was killed. I don't get how I can pipe the two together where it asks me out of my jobs which one do I want to kill, then kills and confirms it?
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Old 05-05-2011
Please define "job".
You mention the "jobs" command which suggests that you may mean background jobs started by your current session.
If not, by "job" do you actually mean "process"?

What Operating System and version do you have?
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Old 05-05-2011
I mean background jobs started by my session. I thought I would need to include processes with that also. I am using putty to access our server.
# 6  
Old 05-09-2011
something like this maybe?

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
clear
ps -ef  | grep citizencro | awk '{print $2}' >> /tmp/proclist
echo "The following pids are owned by citizencro"
cat /tmp/proclist
echo "Which one would you like to kill?"
read PROCKILL
echo "you are going to kill the following pid $PROCKILL, type yes to continue"
read CONTINUE
case $CONTINUE in
 yes|Yes|Y)
kill -9 $PROCKILL
;;
 *)
exit 1
;;
esac
PROCNUM=`ps -ef  | grep -v grep | grep $PROCKILL | wc -l`
clear
echo "there are $PROCNUM process running with the $PROCKILL pid"

Last edited by sboots; 05-09-2011 at 03:50 PM..
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Old 05-09-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by citizencro
Hello all,

I need to write a shell script that does the following; Allows you to kill a job,(1) listing only the jobs you own, (2) asks for which job to kill, (3) kills the job and (4) confirms kill...

I am not sure if I need to first run the job command and pipe it with kill? Which options to include to make it most efficient and if this can be done all in one script? IF I should be using kill at all? Any help would be greatly appreciated.... I am struggling with this one. Thanks in advance, citizencro
"jobs" is specific shell and according to me only jobs command is enough so need a script "is really necessary"..i dont know but maybe this script(exshell) can give an idea..
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...al-script.html

regards
ygemici
 
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