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From: bd@hpopd.HP.COM (Bob Desinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: csh weirdness (HELP!)
Message-ID: <8000007@hpopd.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 90 15:49:12 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.151415.14575@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: HP Software Engineering Systems, UK
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> to kill every instance of a.out I get
> 	`ps | grep a.out | awk '{printf("%d ",$1);}'`: Ambiguous.

Can you work around this by changing the awk program to generate the
kill commands, then piping the awk output to the shell?  As in:

    ps | grep a.out | awk '{print "kill", $1}' | sh

-- bd