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Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

Herberth Amaral — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:38:15 -0000

This worked for me. Thank you very much.

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

Tomasz Su — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:50:04 -0000

pkill -U <user name="">

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:21:56 -0000

egrep -v "ps|sh|PID" file | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:02:05 -0000

Hi,
PID TTY COMMAND
2345 ? 0:00 msgcntl //
4977 pts/tc 0:00 ps
3807 ? 0:00 spectrum
3813 ? 0:00 msgcntl //
3802 ? 0:00 printmgr
3814 ? 0:00 ssmcntl//
3810 ? 0:00 ptrcntl//
3815 ? 0:00 ssmcntl//
3811 ? 0:00 termcntl//
3817 ? 0:00 ssmcntl//
3816 ? 0:00 pccntl//
3798 ? 0:00 rsetcntl//
2215 pts/tc 0:00 sh
<font color="blue">In the above scenario, I have to kill all the process except ps and sh . How to do that ?</font>

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:08:00 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>jproctor wrote:</h6>Sorry to appear thick, but could you give an example of processname-patern
thanks for posting this great help jproctor</ul>

you can use pgrep and pkill

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:53:06 -0000

You can use the following command :

kill -9 `ps -ef | grep <process-name> | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

Just make sure that you keyin the correct process name in the above command.

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

Holger — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:15:52 -0000

a kill -9 doesnt give the process the possibility to clean up; to exit "voluntarily". can screw up its data.

always try a kill (without -9) first

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

casper — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:58:56 -0000

i think you might want to look into the killall command

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

qmchenry — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:11:10 -0000

That's a good question. Using grep has a brief but steep learning curve. Most UNIX commands do. Once you get the basics, you can put grep to powerful use.

In the most basic usage, grep will search through text looking for the search string. If you want to look for commands containing the string 'http' you would simply use:

..... | grep http | ....

Grep stands for global regular expression parser and is a magnificently powerful tool. The important thing to take out of that mouthful is 'regular expression' which is a formal language for representing elaborate wildcards for searching. For example, a period matches any single character, so .at would match bat, cat, rat, and so on. Used in a grep statement, it would match that regular expression anywhere in the line, so it would also match brat and bats. Regular expressions would be a great idea for a series of rec.pes.

Re: Kill the undesired UNIX processes in one go

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:43:14 -0000

Sorry to appear thick, but could you give an example of processname-patern
thanks for posting this great help jproctor