[aclug-L] Re: script to kill

[Brian Chapman <tchapman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3/21/00 11:38 PM , glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> is there a way to grep out the pid of a process via bash script? 
> basically what i want to do is write a script to start a program, BUT
> at the beginning of the script kill any current processes of that
> program.  is there a simple way to do this?  is there a program or
> script that will return only the PID of a process when given the name
> of the program?
> jesse


killall prog


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