On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Dan Browning (Network Admin) wrote:
> Truly, I'm not trying to flood the list with stupid questions, it just comes
> so naturally to me.
>
> 1. There must be a command out there that translates the name of a process
> into it's PID, what is it?
ps aux | grep <name>
Usually, it'll give you a line with grep.
> 2. How could I kill all processes that have a certain name?
man killall
> What about killing all processes with a certain pattern in their name,
> how could I do that?
Given pattern foo (and you'd want to exclude any process with "grep" in
its name so you didn't kill the process that was trying to kill things
<g>):
ps aux | grep foo | awk '{print("kill "$2)}' | /bin/sh
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