Grep kill

[Cool_Fire]

Name of Tool: gkill
Author: Cool_Fire
Language coded in: Bash
What it does: Kill running processes by grep selection

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#!/bin/bash
RESULT=`ps auwwwx | grep $1 | grep -v grep | grep -v $0 | awk '{print $2}'`
 
for PID in $RESULT
do
    kill -9 $PID
done

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[narada]

Quite handy. Thanks for the share. :)

[Nautes]

I made a one-liner code for this one by using egrep and xargs. It will work with either bash or ksh (not sure on csh):

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ps -ef | egrep -vw "ps|grep|$0" | grep -w $1 | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -i{} kill -9 {}

Notice that this (and Cool Fire's version) won't work if you don't have awk installed, maybe using sed will be better for this script.

@Cool Fire: Shouldn't you use a shebang in order to assure the script will be run on bash? (your script also works on ksh).

[sanjai]

hi thanks for your information

[Cool_Fire]

@Cool Fire: Shouldn't you use a shebang in order to assure the script will be run on bash? (your script also works on ksh).

Yes, and I did have one, but I cut it off with some comments that were at the top.

[Da_Devil]

Name of Tool: gkill
Author: Cool_Fire
Language coded in: Bash
What it does: Kill running processes by grep selection

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#!/bin/bash
RESULT=`ps auwwwx | grep $1 | grep -v grep | grep -v $0 | awk '{print $2}'`
 
for PID in $RESULT
do
    kill -9 $PID
done

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I've probably mentionned that in the past but you, Siar, rox.