Killing with awk and grep

[Santhosh S. Cheeniyil]

In article <303 at opus.NMSU.EDU> tgardenh at nmsu.edu (Tricia Gardenhire) writes:
>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
>how to display the PID with awk.  But, I have no idea how to use these
>with kill in mind.  Something else I'm sure you will know, how do I
>keep the script from killing itself?  Grep will find everything with
>the word '-sleeper' including the grep command finding the word.
>Any ideas. 

Try the following:

#/bin/csh
kill -9 `ps | grep sleeper | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`

>-Tricia
Cheers,
--santhosh (Santhosh S. Cheeniyil)
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