Killing with awk and grep

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in article <303 at opus.NMSU.EDU>, tgardenh at nmsu.edu (Tricia Gardenhire) says:
> 
> Hi, I've been reading the man pages for awk, but they just aren't that
> helpful.  So here is my question:  I want to create a shell script
> that will look at ps -aux for a certain process called '-sleeper' and
> then kill it.  I've figured out how to search for it using grep and

ps -axe | grep pattern | grep -v grep | awk '{print "kill -9 " $1}' | sh


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