kill a process

[Garry T. Williams]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 01:54, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> I have to kill all processes which has owner as tester, If  there
> any specific command to that or i have to write script, if i read a
> PID into variable i cant kill the processes its not  getting killed
> below is the script.
> 
>  #!/bin/bash
> ps -ef |grep bdctest | grep -v root | awk '{print $2}'>out

So you now have a list of pids in the file called out.

> while read line
> do
> kill -9  $line ; echo $?
> done

This reads from stdin.  Didn't you want to read from the file out?

Maybe an easier way would be to:

    ps -ef|grep bdctest|grep -v root|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9

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