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From: dan@systech.bjorn.COM (Dan Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: killing processes thru' C programs
Summary: add a c to suppress the grep
Message-ID: <878@systech.bjorn.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 91 04:00:27 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.144240.3322@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1991Apr29.054531.4981@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Systech Corp., San Diego, CA
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> 	ps ux | awk '/name/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'
> 
> You replace "name" with the name of the process for which you are
> searching.
> 
> them, and print the PID's for those lines.  Note that the "!/awk/"
> above prevents the awk process for being listed.

if you use ps uxc | grep name | awk '{print $2}' the only thing displayed
is the pid of the processes name.  You should be careful for if you used
vi as the name, there could be some unhappy campers in your KOA.

Dg
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