Re: parsing ps -ax output and killing processes

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

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:31:16 GMT

"Rob" <rob@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Rob" <rob@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> "Rob" <rob@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> im reading the awk man pages, it looks like that's probably what
>> i should be looking at but talk about confusing :). oh, this is for
>> bash on redhat if that makes a difference.
>>
>> im playing with something along the lines of
>> awk -F: '{ print $1 }' | ps -ax | grep xxx
>>
>>
>> to at least output the process numbers, but it doesn't return me to the
>> shell and i'm not sure what to do from there anyway :)
>>
>>
> it just occured to me the above example isn't doing anything more than
> the ps -ax | grep xxx is :) :). oops!
>
>

new direction ... i just found pgrep and pkill commands :).

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