Comments on: Loop Kill Mutiple PID On Bourne Shell

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:50:44 +0000

geeez, you guys are all correct…

xargs is sooo true… pkill is not for everyone, well at least for solaris 2.6 and below, and kill -9 is indeed not for kids.

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:33:44 +0000

kill -9 $(ps -unobody -opid | sed 1d)
…except I’d *never* script a kill -9 without massive amounts of sanity and error checking.

Ryan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:28:09 +0000

*cough* *cough*

pkill -9 nobody

Joe O'Brien — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:15:24 +0000

You don’t need a script, just add xargs:

ps -ef | grep nobody | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs kill -9