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Re: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX | UNIX | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:36:45 -0000

ps -ef|awk '{print $2}'

I use it like follows...

ps -ef|grep <filter string>|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -15

Cheers.

Re: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX | UNIX | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:38:10 -0000

I don't know if you've experienced consistency problems, but I have been using cut to get pid information from ps for a long time. For example 'ps -ef | cut -c 10-15' works fine for me.