On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi,
A more general solution would be :
<produce list of pids to kill> | xargs kill
Regards,
Jor-el
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