Korn Script to kill processes by pid

[warburp]

Hi

No doubt a straight forward request for those who are used to lots of programming. I have a number of scripts which store their pid in a file when running. I want to display on screen the pid and the pid desciption so that a user can select a pid (script) to terminate.

Anyone point me in the direction of a script I can use or give me some pointers.

Thanks

 

[olded]

Hi:

Check out this link for some ideas:

http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1344/uni1015951559804/

Regards,

Ed

 

[bi]

I have used this script to quickly kill all java processes on a development system. Since you already have the PID file, you could take just the part from the cat line on down:

PID=`ps -e | grep $1 | awk '{ print $1 }' > /export/home/utility/bin/pid.txt`

# This line cats the file created in the line above and says while
# catting the file, read each line.

cat /export/home/utility/bin/pid.txt | while read LINE

# This line tells the system to do a kill -9 on each PID that is
# listed in the pid.txt file. There will alwasy be an error message
# because the grep for the process is also listed but by the time
# the kill command is executed, the grep has already died.

do kill -9 $LINE
# This line closes up the do line.
done