query on process id

[nav882]

hi all,
assume tht i am running a process run.sh.My question is that how to run another script where it should get the pid of run.sh and kill it.
wht are the commands to get the pid alone of run.sh

[Oviwan]

Hey

#ps -ef | grep run.sh | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'

this returns the second field of the ps output. perhaps it's another field number.

Regards

[Hemmetter]

hi

$ UNIX95= ps -fC test.sh
and only the PID:
$ UNIX95= ps -C test.sh -o pid=

rgds
HGH

[Stuart Browne]

'pidof' is your friend:

kill -TERM `pidof run.sh`

It will return a space-separated list of PID's that match the process name you give. It usually lives as a symbolic link as '/sbin/pidof'.