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To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@ny.frontiercomm.net>
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	Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@ny.frontiercomm.net> wrote in
	Message-ID: <199706190642.CAA05741@hzoli.home>
	Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997

> Oh, this is a really overcomplicated solution for a simple problem.  How
> about this:
>
> pid () {
> local i
> for i
> do
> ps acx | sed -n "s/ *\([0-9]*\) .* $i *\$/\1/p"
> done
> }

Yes but what if there is more than one process by that name?

I usually want to kill them all.  This just kills one of them, whereas my  
solution kills them all (that's what the 'tr' part is for).... however, it  
may be "improvable":

Here's my function again

pid () {

 for i in $*
 do
         echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |
         grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '`

 done

}

it also takes multiple arguments, in case you need to kill several things at once

TjL


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