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From: CCDN@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh question -- aliasing, quoting and the like
Message-ID: <1758@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 21 Sep 89 13:09:04 GMT
References: <498@westc.UUCP>
Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
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In article <498@westc.UUCP>, gjoost@westc.UUCP (Gertjan van Oosten) writes:
> The basic problem is as follows: I want an alias to kill all processes
> called 'roy'.
>
> % alias killroy 'kill `ps ax | grep -w roy | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`'
>
> The problem comes down to having single quotes within single quotes.

What's wrong with cut?  Use cut before you go diving for awk.

% alias killroy 'kill `ps ax | grep -w roy | grep -v grep | cut -c1-5`'


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