Re: killing a large lists of pids

On Nov 29, 8:54 am, K-mart Cashier <cdal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Say I have the following list of pids...
8, 2, 5, 4, 3, 9, 7, 11

I've seen some code where people would sort the pids before killing
them. What is the possible advantage of this? If you already have the
list of pids, couldn't you just traverse the list, killing each one
along the way?

Chad

for pid in "8 2 5 4 3 9 7 11"
do
kill $pid
done

.

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