On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:
MHR wrote:
#!/bin/bash
# A shell script to kill that annoying runaway seamonkey that won't die
case `basename $0` in "seakill") cmd=seamonkey;; "foxkill") cmd=firefox;; *) echo "Unrecognized command."; exit 1;; esac
kill -9 `ps -ef | grep $cmd | grep -v grep | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}'` ps -ef | grep $cmd | grep -v grep
If it works, nothing is displayed. If seamonkey/firefox is already gone, it give me kill's error for not finding the process (or for a missing process number because 'ps' couldn't find it, either).
Isn't that command line a bit complex? Why not use ps options to get what you want rather than using grep, tail, and awk to pull the PID out of the standard output?
ps -C $cmd -o pid= | xargs kill -9 ps -fC $cmd
It's an old script I rarely use. Yours looks better - I'm taking it. :-)
Thanks
mhr