pkill equivalent command in AIX 1

[pdtak]

Does anyone know how I can find a process and kill it using one command line (ie. ps -ef | grep process; get PID; kill -9 PID)?
I know in Solaris there's a pkill command, but I didn't find a pkill command in AIX.
I like to run it in a script. How can I do this?
Thanks.

 

[khalidaaa]

Not sure if it will work put try this:

 pid=`ps -e |grep "process_name" |sed -e 's/^  *//' -e 's/ .*//' &&[ ! -z "$pid" ] && echo killing Process_name && kill $pid &

Replace the process_name with your process.

Regards,
Khalid

 

[pdtak]

Thanks for your tip Khalidaaa.
I tried your command, but I got a syntax error:
pid=`ps -e |grep tftpd |sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//' &&[ ! -z "$pid" ] && echo killing Process_name && kill $pid & >
Interrupt Received
sh: 0403-057 Syntax error: ``' is not matched.

 

[THOR01]

looks like you need the ` at the end. I see this one pid=`ps -e but not another one.

 

[exsnafu]

create a little function for pkill and dump it in your .profile:

function pkill {
PIDTODIE=${1}
for die in `ps -ef|grep $PIDTODIE|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'`;do
echo $die
done
}

replace echo with kill, once you feel safe.