Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun.dspo.gov!lanl!opus!dante!tgardenh From: tgardenh@nmsu.edu (Tricia Gardenhire) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Summarize: killing with awk and grep Message-ID: <304@opus.NMSU.EDU> Date: 11 Aug 89 14:23:30 GMT Sender: news@nmsu.edu Distribution: usa Lines: 13 Thanks to all who sent me their ideas. I think I understand a little more about how grep, and awk work now. Any way, to summarize, the easiest way to do this was: kill `ps -aux | fgrep -e -sleeper | egrep -v fgrep | awk '{print $2}'` Most other ideas were similar, but were more involved shell scripts. For others who wish to use this, just change "-sleeper" to whatever process you need to kill. Thanks again for all the help. -Trish