[NTLUG:Discuss] kill command
Leroy Tennison
leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Sat Jun 13 20:46:25 CDT 2009
Val Harris wrote:
> Ralph Green wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> I tried the following command and it does not quite work, and I don't
>> see why. Any suggestions?
>>
>> ps -A -o pid -o cmd | grep "update-notifier" | cut -c1-5 | kill
>>
>> If I do it without that last bit, I get the pid of the process I want
>> to kill. How do I need to change this to kill that process? I know it
>> will also get the pid of the grep command and kill that process, but I
>> can't see that that would hurt anything.
>> Good day,
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>>
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>
> assign the pid to a variable, ie: PID and then execute "kill $PID".
>
Check and see if you have the 'pidof' program, if you do then
kill `pidof update-notifier`
where the "quotes" are actually graves meaning hexadecimal 60.
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