Re: kill and pid files

[Matt Welland <mwelland@ichips.intel.com>]

On Linux the killall command does what I need (I am forever doing "killall
diald" - but thats another story - *sigh*). However the little snippet
below just went into my .zshrc - AIX killall doesn't take process names as
parameters.

See - if you watch this list long enough at least 80% of those little
"argh - I must get around to writing that" bits of code will get written
for you! 

--Matt

On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:

> > well, I don't have the file part, but I use this
> > 
> > pid () {
> > 
> > for i in $*
> > do
> >         echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |
> >         grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '`
> >  
> > done
> > 
> > }
> 
> 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/ *\([0-9]*\) .* $i *\$/\1/p"
>     done
> }
> 
> Under Linux, you can even do that without ps or sed:
> 
> pid2 () {
>     local i
>     for i in /proc/<->/stat
>     do
>         [[ "$(< $i)" = *\((${(j:|:)~@})\)* ]] && echo $i:h:t
>     done
> }
> 
> Zoltan
>