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From: snpatel@ncsuvx.enet.dec.com (SHETAL NATAWARBH PATEL)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: awk script
Keywords: awk, ps, kill
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.233802.12679@ncsu.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 23:38:02 GMT
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> 
> CMD='dxclock'
> ME=`whoami`
> PROC=`ps -ef | grep /${CMD}|
> awk '$1 == '${ME}' && $8 != "grep" {print $2}'`
> kill -HUP ${PROC}
>
 I tried this script and it doesn't work.
 But I finally got this to work,

   CMD='dxclock'
    ME=`whoami`
  PROC=`ps -aux | grep ${CMD}|grep -v grep| \
        awk '{print $2}'`
  kill -9 ${PROC}

Is there any way to ask the user to type in the command that they wish to kill
and then kill it after the entry?

--
Nothing more smooth than glass, yet nothing more brittle;
Nothing more fine than wit, yet nothing more fickle.
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|  Shetal N. Patel                                                |
|  snpatel@eos.ncsu.edu          NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY  |
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