Trying to learn AWK for no particular reason, but why does this not work?
ps -e | awk 'BEGIN {ORS=" "} $4 ~ /xmms/ {print $1 | "kill"}'
I get a broken pipe error:
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill
-l [sigspec]
Broken pipe
*confused*
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