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September 28, 2008, 18:27

Interesting list.

Here's a useful awk one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process, including all its parents that are part of Firefox (but not the shell or any "higher" ancestors). This is a real-life example which I wrote and used recently:

UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process

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