Nick W wrote:
> 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 know this doesn't help with awk, but you could get the same effect by using ps options: kill `ps -o pid -C xmms` or something similar to that. see `man ps` Dave _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca

