[wplug] Killing processes

[Bill Moran]

Andreas Rindler wrote:
> Hey,
> I am having trouble restarting Evolution after my network connection has
> either changed or was terminated. It leaves two process running and I
> can't restart Evolution. My solution so far was to kill these processes
> which lets me restart it. 
> 
> I am trying to automate this, but I can't quite get the syntax to work:
> 
> ps aux | grep evolutio n| awk '{print$2}'    
> 
> #gives me all processes that have evolution in the name
> 
> ps aux | grep evolution | awk '{print$2}' | kill
> 
> #and then the idea was to just pipe it to kill, but it doesn't work 
> #also, the third process is the grep command itself, how do i skip that
> one??
> 
> I would be grateful for any ideas...

kill `ps aux | grep evolution | grep -v grep | awk '{print$2}'`

The backquotes cause the output of the command to be used as the argument
to kill.  grep -v only shows lines that don't match.  I don't know how
cross-shell compatable this is, so apologies if it doesn't work in whatever
shell you're using.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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