Hi Victor,

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> I have had to do such things that many times that I came up with a one liner :
> 
>  ps -eafw | grep morituri | awk '{print $2}' |  xargs kill
> 
> Disclaimers:
> Different people have different favourite 'ps' invocations embedded in
> their finger memories. The above is mine.
> A purist would say there should be a 'grep -v grep |' in the pipeline
> as well. A /real/ purist would say there shouldn't and that there
> should be one grep with a regex.

Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;)

Cheers,
Andy

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