Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained

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June 23, 2010, 01:39

You can do it without grep too:

kill -9 $(ps -ef | awk '/search pattern/ { print $2 }')

And to avoid errors if nothing is found:

ps -ef | awk '/search pattern/ { print $2 }' | xargs -r kill -9

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