[Sunhelp] Problem on creating a script to kill processes.

[John Kennedy]

Miguel Demaerel wrote:
> 
> Hoi All
> 
> I'm a newbie on this platform.
> 
> I wont to create a script that kill several processes.
> 
> ps -ef | grep "name" |awk '{print $2}
> Now I have a list of PID, but how can I kill these processes?
> 
> kill ???
> 
> Are there any good site or books on writing scripts?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Greetings Miguel
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Miguel,
I use the following VERY basic script to kill multiple processes of the
same name.  I call the script pkill (After the Solaris 7 command) and
use it on my RedHat Linux box with the following command:
pkill 'process name' (i.e. pkill soffice)
There are several scripting books available.  Anything by O'Reilly
publishing is well worth the money.
John

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#!/bin/sh
echo ""
echo ""
echo "Checking to see if process is running..."
echo ""
echo ""
ps -ef | grep $1 | grep -v grep
echo ""
echo ""
echo "Killing processes..."
kill -9 `ps -ef | grep $1 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
echo ""
echo ""
echo "Checking to make sure process is dead..."
echo ""
echo ""
ps -ef | grep $1 | grep -v grep 

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