[SunHELP] xargs ?

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True, but pkill is fairly recent --- especially in Solaris.  I've been doing it this way for quite a while. :)

Plus, the original question was about xargs anyway, so I thought I'd do it the old fashioned way.

> 
> Wyatt,
> Just an FYI for killing process, there is another way that involved
> less typing. The command is called pkill and can be found on Solaris and
> Linux. There is also a pgrep command. Just another example that their is
> more than one way to do it in UNIX. ;-)
> 
> Robert
> 
> Robert Banniza
> Senior UNIX Administrator
> Ascension Health
> Phone: 812-228-2157
> 
> >>> wyatt at draggoo.com 01/07/02 10:50PM >>>
> Heh.  xargs is one of my favorite commands --- and one very often
> overlooked, from what I've seen.
> 
> xargs effectively runs a command for each thing passed to it from a
> pipe.  For instance:
> $ find / -name core | xargs rm
> will remove all of your core files (barring permissions, etc.  And I
> know that `find / -name core -exec rm {} \;' is cleaner, but this served
> as an example...)
> 
> One of the best uses I've found for xargs is for killing processes:
> # ps -ef | grep baduser | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -TERM
> This will kill (nicely) all of baduser's processes.  In scripting, I'd
> probably sleep for a couple of seconds, and do the same with -KILL
> instead of -TERM to make sure I've gotten the stubborn ones.
> 
> Wyatt
> 
> > 
> > Dear guru
> > Someone please distinguish me about the following things:
> >  Pipe '|'
> >  Redirect '>'
> >  xargs
> > 
> > I understand '|' and '>' but not 'xargs'. Please give me a guide
> line
> > when I should use 'xargs'? how difference between 2 above
> > or point me to some source of information about this.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Patrick.
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