pass PID to kill using script

[hcclnoodles]

Hi there, i wonder if anyone can help

is there any way that i can write a script that will kill all current ftp processes, for example if ps -ef | grep ftp produces 3 active proceses, then I would like to somehow extract the PID for each one and pass that to kill -9

has anybody done this before that could give me some ideas


cheers

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
for sig in 15 9; do
pids=$(ps -e | awk '$NF=="ftp"{printf "%d ",$1}')
[ "$pids" ] && kill -$sig $pids && sleep 2
done

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[ericbrunson]

See if your system has the command "killall

 

[KenCunningham]

I'd be interested to know why you want to kill all current ftp processes - aren't they doing something?

 

[galger]

You could try this one.

#!/bin/sh
# find process ... kill it.
ftppid=0
ftppid=`/usr/bin/ps -ef | /usr/bin/grep ftpproc| /usr/bin/grep -v grep | /usr/bin/cut -c9-14`
if [ "$ftppid" = "" ]; then
echo could not find ftp processes
else
echo $ndmpid
/usr/bin/kill -HUP $ftppid
fi