killing a process

[tomdagliusa]

My dept. does a bad job of cleaning up old processes.
I would like to be able to su to root, and identify the processes, then kill them. I can identify them ok, but how do I access the process number which I need to send to the kill command? Let's say I pipe a ps auxw | grep "someTerm" into a file. The second column in that file are all the process numbers. I'd love to be able to do something like:

for column2 in `ps auxw | grep "someTerm"`
do
kill -9 $column2
done

BUT, don't know how to get that process id into a shell available variable.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[mrmac228]

`ps auxw|grep "someterm"| awk '{print $2}'`

Where $2 is the pid in the second column


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[tomdagliusa]

Doug,

That's the ticket. Thank You.

Tom

 

[eepico]

# pids=`ps -aux | grep tty | awk '{if ($11 != "grep&quot print $2}'`
# kill $pids

In this way it will not print the PID for the "grep someterm" process you just typed.

 

[mrmac228]

FYI. Doug is the name of the guy whose quote I use in my signature.

Ken ;-)


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