If you know the names of the programs, the line
killall -9 programname1 programname2 programname3
will kill the programs, hard. It is always better to just try a killall
before you do a killall -9.
You can use the command line
ps ax | grep programname
and the first thing on the line is the pid.
bug
>
> Wow, that damned-near blew off my toup�e! Seriously, how would you get
> it to get the pid for each program and store into an array?
>
> Seve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, March 19, 2000 9:31 PM
> Subject: RE: [expert] How To Kill An Application From Command Line?
>
>
> >The typical command for killing something from the command line is
> >
> > kill -9 <pid>