Actually, I don't think there's a command that will do what you want
directly, but a shell or perl script should be able to do it. Here's a draft
of a perl example (not tested, so watch for errors, small or large):
#!/usr/bin/perl
@killlist = split( /\n/`ps -ax |grep processname`/ ) ;
foreach $process ( @killlist )
{
@entries = split (/\s/$process/ ) ;
$dummy = ` kill @entries[0]` ;
} ;
# eop
At 05:17 PM 2/25/99 -0000, Dan Browning (Network Admin) wrote [abriged version]:
>1. There must be a command out there that translates the name of a process
>into it's PID, what is it?
>
>2. How could I kill all processes that have a certain name? What about
>killing all processes with a certain pattern in their name, how could I do
>that?
>
>I'm thinking:
>
># kill | (trans_processid *pat[]tern*)
> ^-whatever that command is
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