Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!tfli!mikej
From: mikej@tfli.UUCP (Michael R.  Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Problem piping "jobs"
Message-ID: <253@tfli.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 88 02:15:46 GMT
References: <733@iraun1.ira.uka.de>
Reply-To: mikej@tfli.UUCP (Michael R.  Johnston)
Organization: Tempforce Long Island, NY
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In article <733@iraun1.ira.uka.de> schuetz@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Elmar Schuetz) writes:
>I want to "kill -9" the latest submitted job in a csh-environment.
>I mean the job with the highest number. Note, this is not always "%+".

NOTE: Your last process does NOT necessarily have to be the highest numbered
process attached to your tty. In particular processes wrap around after
a certain point and start from the bottom again. 

This is one of those things that WILL work in the majority of cases. Your 
playing roulette if logged in as root though......



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