Awk:
ps aux | grep xxx | awk '{print("kill "$2)}' | /bin/sh
The last part is to execute it otherwise it just prints it to screen.
There are other ways; I happen to like awk because you can "prototype" the
command. Then, when you have it *just* right, you can add the | /bin/sh at
the end. :)
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Dan Browning (Network Admin) wrote:
> I need to be able to kill a parent process based on the child process name.
> I can use "ps aux | grep xxx" to find the parent parent process ID - but how
> do I get that number out of that line? I need to pipe that number to kill,
> so that the parent is dead and all it's children die. I tried to pipe it to
> cut, but I couldn't get it work every time. Or maybe there is a command
> that reports the parent of a process? That would be the handiest.
>
> Some more background info:
>
> Thanks to your guys' help, I have a simple script (included below), that
> just runs a few programs in a loop for me. But the parent of the process
> is -bash. The problem is when I want to stop the mirror program. Of course
> I can't just "killall mirror" because the shell will just start another one
> (because of the loop). Now, because the parent is bash, then I would have
> to kill all bash processes (assuming I don't know which bash started my
> "mirror"s) to get the child processes (mirror) to stop.
>
> Is there a command that will return the name of the parent of a given
> process? Then I could pipe that to killall.
>
> Here is the contents of the file newmirrormandrake.sh
> ----------------------------
> M=/home/danb/mirror/mirror.mandrake
>
> while true
> do
> mirror -pMandrake $M
> mirror -papps $M
> mirror -pdoc $M
> mirror -pdosutils $M
> mirror -pimages $M
> mirror -pmisc $M
> done
> ----------------------------
>
> TIA.
>
>
> Dan Browning
> Network Administrator
> Cyclone Computer Systems
>
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