topic Re: format to kill a range of processes in Operating System - Linux

format to kill a range of processes

Kyle D. Harris — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:39:13 GMT

Hello, I'm looking for the command or format to kill a range of processes. I have a bunch of hanging scripts. Lets say hundreds that didn't run correctly and they are just hanging. How would i kill a range of them.

kill -9 (100-999)

above is assuming i want to kill processes 100 through 999. how would i do that? Thanks in advance.

Kyle

Re: format to kill a range of processes

Caesar_3 — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:44:40 GMT

Hello!

You can write your own kill (script)
perl:

$signal = shift;
$from = shift;
$to = shift;

for (i = $from; i <= $to; i++)
{
kill ($signal, $i);
}

Caesar

Re: format to kill a range of processes

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:57:01 GMT

See this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x836cc1c4ceddd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

See my post entitled gkill

SEP

Re: format to kill a range of processes

Balaji N — Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:13:31 GMT

echo 2 20 | awk '{ for (i=$1;i<$2;i++) {system(kill i}}'

here the 2 20 are the start and end range for the kill script.

-balaji

Re: format to kill a range of processes

Stuart Browne — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:15:09 GMT

Assuming they are all of the same 'name', all spawning it's self over and over, you might give Linux' 'killall' a try.

Unlike the killall of a number of other Unicies, it has the ability to killall of a given process 'name'.