Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!tnoibbc!westc!gjoost
From: gjoost@westc.UUCP (Gertjan van Oosten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh question -- Really kill problem
Keywords: csh alias quotes
Message-ID: <501@westc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 08:27:15 GMT
References: <498@westc.UUCP>
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gjoost@westc.UUCP (Gertjan van Oosten) writes:

>The problem concerns csh-aliases (aliasi ??? - David Addison in
>'Moonlighting').
>The basic problem is as follows: I want an alias to kill all processes
>called 'roy'.

The alias is no longer the problem. The problem lies now with 'kill'; see
the script below.

Script started on Fri Sep 22 10:09:18 1989
% makealias killroy > kr
kill `ps ax | grep -w roy | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
^D
% cat kr
alias killroy 'kill `ps ax | grep -w roy | grep -v grep | awk '\''{print $1}'\''`'
% source kr
% alias killroy
kill `ps ax | grep -w roy | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
% roy &
[1] 9456
% killroy
% 
[1]    Terminated           roy
% roy &
[1] 9461
% roy &
[2] 9462
% killroy
`ps ax | grep -w roy | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`: Ambiguous.
% kill `echo 9461 9462`
`echo 9461 9462`: Ambiguous.
% exit
script done on Fri Sep 22 10:12:59 1989

Unless someone has got a solution, I guess I will be needing xargs... :-)

Regards,
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