On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote:
Hugh Saunders wrote:
ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill
[...snip...]
2) how do i get kill or bash to realise its an expression?
Is there any reason not to use 'killall xine'?
That's how I do it ususally...
'pkill xine' is better if you have a new enough version of procps, since
'killall' does ... let's say surprising things on System V-ish variants
of Unix.
Hi,
A more general solution would be :
<produce list of pids to kill> | xargs kill
Regards,
Jor-el