kill by process name

[Brent W. Moll]

I need a script which will kill a process by name, rather by number.

Does anyone have one ?

Thank you :)

[G. Vrijhoeven · Accepted solution]

Hi,

#!/usr/bin/ksh
PROC=$1
for PID in `ps -eaf | grep -v grep | grep $PID | awk '{ print $2}'`
do
kill $PID
done

[G. Vrijhoeven]

sorrie:


#!/usr/bin/ksh
PROC=$1
for PID in `ps -eaf | grep -v grep | grep $PROC | awk '{ print $2}'`
do
kill $PID
done

HTH,

Gideon

[Steven E. Protter]

attaching a script called gkill.

I typed it out of a text book. It is powerful and dangerous. I added protection against slamming processes owned by root.

See attachment

SEP

[Pete Randall]

Brent,

This is, indeed, very dangerous. You need to be extremely careful with your grep command to make sure you get exactly the process you want. I would suggest display the output of the grep for confirmation before killing anything!


Pete

[Oliver Schmitz]

I have nothing ready but here a raw scetch what i can imagine so quick:

test=`ps -ef |gerp 'process name'`
echo $test
Search in this string for the pid and kill it.

Maybe this helps.

Best regards,
Oliver

[Oliver Schmitz]

O.k. to late.

Regards,

Oliver

[Pete Randall]

Brent,

(In case you do come back to this).

It took a bit of searching but I found an excellent thread on this very subject. Pay particular attention to the responses of JRF and Bill H.


Pete

[Kent Ostby]

touch .killit
rm .killit*
echo "TRAN" $1 > .killit1
ps -ef | cut -c10-15,48-80 >> .killit1
awk '/^TRAN/{matchme=$2;next;}$2==matchme{print "kill ",$1};' .killit1 > .killit
2
chmod +x .killit2
./.killit2

Make sure on word wrap. Right now there is a "2" showing up on a seperate line which should really be the end of ".killit2".

Best regards,

Kent Ostby

[Pete Randall]

Brent,

Sorry, it would help if I included the thread, wouldn't it?

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xc8d7a135f587d5118ff00090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1076684925468+28353475


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Oh, and Clay makes some good points too!


Pete