Pkill.sh [Shell script to kill process by name]

Submitted by himanshu on Thu, 06/03/2004 - 13:52. | Tags:

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In *nix the "kill" command needs to know the pid(process id) of the process to kill it. So i decided to code a bash script to kill a process by name :

#!/bin/bash

if [ $1 -eq ""]; then
echo "Usage : ./pkill.sh <process name>"
else
get_proc=`ps -e -o pid,command | grep $1`
echo $get_proc > get_it
get_pid=`gawk -F" " '{ print $1 }' get_it`
kill -9 $get_pid
fi

The script is quite messy and certainly needs more improvement.

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simple ways

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 06:32.

simpler ways I found...

#!/bin/bash
if [ $1 -eq "" ] then
echo "Usage : ./pkill.sh <process name>"
else
for i in `ps ax | grep $1| cut -d ' ' -f 1`
do
  kill -9 $i
done
fi

or direct one liner...

killall <processname>

Cheerzz
Joviano Dias
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Goa - India

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Submitted by sandip on Thu, 06/03/2004 - 13:58.

Himanshu,

Use the "[" and "]" for the opening and closing square code brackets, "<" and ">" for the angle brackets. Also enclose scripts with <pre> tag. Thanks for your informative posts

--
Sandip

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Sandeep bro, Thanks. I

Submitted by himanshu on Thu, 06/03/2004 - 14:08.

Sandeep bro,
Thanks. I will keep that in mind while posting code from now on.

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Pkill.sh [Shell script to kill process by name]

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Sandeep bro, Thanks. I

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