Unix Programming - Re: How to write a script to kill more than one process matching

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Re: How to write a script to kill more than one process matching

Eric Sosman

2007-08-23, 1:27 pm

mullin wrote On 08/23/07 08:23,:
> Let's say that have a program that will be run more than one instance
> on Solaris, how can I use "kill" command to delete them all if I'm
> using bash shell.
>
> If I run this command:
> /usr/ucb/ps -auxwww | grep app_name | cut -f1-3 -d ' '
>
> it will return something like this:
> userA: 12345
> userA: 12340
>
> where userA is the userid running the program and 2nd one is the PID.
>
> But, how can I write the sh script to kill them all?

Use "man pkill" and write a very short script.

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