On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to kill > [...snip...] > > 2) how do i get kill or bash to realise its an expression? > > Is there any reason not to use 'killall xine'? > That's how I do it ususally...
'pkill xine' is better if you have a new enough version of procps, since 'killall' does ... let's say surprising things on System V-ish variants of Unix. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]