parsing ps -ax output and killing processes

From: Rob (rob_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:58:00 GMT

After the success of writing my first script yesterday (thanks guys!) I'm
motivated to move on to something more complex today.
How would I go about doing something like a

ps -ax | grep xxxx

and then killing any processes listed (except for the one running the
command of course). There may not be any processes, I
was thinking to detect that I could write out to a file and check the file
size, but I guess that doesn't really help me if there are
any processes listed. Basically I run a shutdown script which doesn't
always work, then need to verify that the script did work
by seeing if processes are still running and manually killing them if they
arent.

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