Brady Hegberg writes: > I'm looking for a more useful ps command for when you just want to > find a process to kill it. All I really need is the command and the > PID so I tried this: Try this for a "killall" command: kill $(ps ahx --format="%c%p" | tr -s ' ' | grep "$NAME " | cut -d' ' -f2) The command you are looking for is this: ps ahxwww --format="%p%a" Note that this method can be dangerous, as it has a race condition: between the time that you lookup the PID and send the signal, the process can be killed and a new one started in its place. This is why PID files are a bad idea and should not be used. The proper way to manage processes is to use a supervisor program, like daemontools. The daemontools method is not vulnerable to this race condition. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list