Re: OT Shell tricks: I'll kill you later

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> I have few ugly shell scripts which do a lot of WHOIS queries, which
> I've found are prone to hang for a long time.  The simple thing to do is
> to hunt for whois queries, then, and periodically kill them:
>
>     while sleep 600
>     do
>         ps aux | awk '/[w]hois/ {print $2}' | xargs kill
>     done
>
> Of course, this is a bit indiscriminate:  it kills any WHOIS process
> that happens to be running at the moment.

Not only that; it kills any process which has "whois" in its command
line.  You might want to look into pidof and/or killall.

Martin


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