>>>>> "Walte" == Walter Trush <wtrush at uswest.com> writes: Walter> Miguel, try Walter> for input in `ps -ef | grep "name" |awk '{print $2}` do kill -9 Walter> $input done Or even: ps -efl | grep process_name | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -SIG -- Ramji Venkateswaran GX Networks