Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry, use kill -9 $(pidof communicator-smotif.real)
or something like that. Andre > Peter Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > From man 1 bash: > > Command Substitution > > Command substitution allows the output of a command to > > replace the command name. There are two forms: > > > > $(command) > > or > > `command` > > > > That's why I had the backticks in there. I've never seen the > > $() construct either. > > You can use it for > > kill -9 $(pidof netscape) > > to get rid of all processes that have the string "netscape" in their > names ;) > > Andre