[NTLUG:Discuss] kill command
Val Harris
valwharris at verizon.net
Sat Jun 13 06:53:01 CDT 2009
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".
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