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From: tgardenh@nmsu.edu (Tricia Gardenhire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Killing with awk and grep
Message-ID: <303@opus.NMSU.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 89 21:35:46 GMT
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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. 

Please email responses to tgardenh@nmsu.edu and I'll summarize if
there is enough interest.

Thanks, in advance, for any and all help.

-Tricia