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From: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: problems with setuid (?)
Message-ID: <DUPUY.89Feb24171709@cs.cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 89 22:17:09 GMT
References: <18213@adm.BRL.MIL> <706@root44.co.uk>
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In-reply-to: krh@root.co.uk's message of 16 Feb 89 13:59:37 GMT


 In article <18213@adm.BRL.MIL> you write:
 >I am having a problem (explained below) with killing processes using a
 >c-shell script.

 >
 >kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep xnsstart | fgrep -v fgrep | cut -c1-5`
 >kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep xnshelper | fgrep -v fgrep | cut -c1-5`

You can also eliminate the extra fgrep with the -c option to ps:

  kill -9 `ps -acx | fgrep xnsstart | cut ...`

@alex
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