On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 02:40, Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill My preferred method is: $ kill `ps -C xine -o pid=` OR $ ps -C xine -o pid= | xargs kill This is subtly different from the other suggestions (such as "killall xine"), as it kills anything beginning with xine. This is very useful for killing evolution and its components when a major error occurs. -- Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com> Adacel Technologies