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Old 01-22-2009
See if process is running and kill it

I need a simple line to run from apple remote desktop's Unix terminal on multiple different machines to see if Microsoft Entourage is running and kill it.. I imagine this could be done with a ps auxwww and grab the second field, (PID) put it into a variable and do a kill $variable using awk, but im an awk noob..

ps auxwww |grep -i entourage shows :

Macinename:~/Desktop gleventhal$ ps auxwww |grep -i entourage
gleventh 9643 0.3 -3.6 516784 75388 ?? S Wed12PM 17:31.10 /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Entourage.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Entourage -psn_0_122683393
gleventh 10860 0.0 -0.0 18060 324 p3 R+ 4:19PM 0:00.00 grep -i entourage

Perhaps you have a solution for me? Obviously the PIDs and usernames will be different. Thankx!
# 2  
Old 01-22-2009
Try This!

ps -elf|grep -i entourage|awk '{print "kill -9 "$2}' |sh
That should do the trick.
# 3  
Old 01-22-2009
My PS does not have an -f switch perhaps because im on a mac?
# 4  
Old 01-22-2009
you could try then
ps auxwww |grep -i entourage|awk '{print "kill -9 "$2}' |sh
# 5  
Old 01-22-2009
That seemed to do it, Thanks! If you care to explain your awk coding a little, that would be great
# 6  
Old 01-27-2009
What awk '{print "kill -9 "$2}' is doing is just taking the input and printing out kill -9 field2 (delimited by 1 or more spaces/tabs), in your case the field2 is the PID of the process entourage...
Peace.
 
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