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Pkill.sh [Shell script to kill process by name]

Thu, 06/03/2004 - 13:52 — himanshu

In *nix the "kill" command needs to know the pid(process id) of the process to kill it. So i decided to code a bash script to kill a process by name :

#!/bin/bash

if [ $1 -eq ""]; then
echo "Usage : ./pkill.sh <process name>"
else
get_proc=`ps -e -o pid,command | grep $1`
echo $get_proc > get_it
get_pid=`gawk -F" " '{ print $1 }' get_it`
kill -9 $get_pid
fi

The script is quite messy and certainly needs more improvement.

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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 02:12 — Anonymous Need script to kill process of esdemo,eslm,mfds

Hi,
Can any1 help me to get the scipt for killing process of esdemo, eslm, fds i.e microfocus in linux

we generally use-
ps -ef | grep -i esdemo
ps -ef | grep eslm
ps -ef | grep mfds

Sandeep

Thu, 05/15/2008 - 06:32 — Anonymous simple ways

simpler ways I found...

#!/bin/bash
if [ $1 -eq "" ] then
echo "Usage : ./pkill.sh <process name>"
else
for i in `ps ax | grep $1| cut -d ' ' -f 1`
do
  kill -9 $i
done
fi

or direct one liner...

killall <processname>

Cheerzz
Joviano Dias
jovistruck@yahoo.com
Goa - India

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:25 — Anonymous may not always work

I tried to use your code in a script I wrote today and ran into a problem.
When `ps ax` prints something like this:

 9998 ?        S      0:00 victim-process
10025 ?        S      0:09 victim-process

your script cuts the first line to "" or " " and the second line to "10025", thus not killing the first process.

I fixed this problem by using the following code:

for i in `ps ax | grep $1 | grep -v grep | sed 's/ *//' | sed 's/[^0-9].*//'`
do
  kill -9 $i
done
Thu, 06/03/2004 - 13:58 — sandip code brackets

Himanshu,

Use the "&#91;" and "&#93;" for the opening and closing square code brackets, "&lt;" and "&gt;" for the angle brackets. Also enclose scripts with <pre> tag. Thanks for your informative posts

--
Sandip

Thu, 06/03/2004 - 14:08 — himanshu Sandeep bro, Thanks. I

Sandeep bro,
Thanks. I will keep that in mind while posting code from now on.

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