abhilash kumar wrote:
Helllo:
I am trying to write a shell script to get the process
id of a particular process (slapd)
and then kill that using 'kill -9 $pid'.
I can get the pid by using prid= pidof slapd
An echo of this for testing gives me the pid number
followed by a blank line and then the prompt.
Now the problem is when I am trying to use this
variable in various forms in the shell script and get errors.
option 1: kill -9 $prid
Output:
20685
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec]
[pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec]
========================= Option 2: actual= "kill -9 $prid" echo $actual
Output: 20685 ./testscript: line 4: kill -9 : command not found
==========================
Option 3: actual="kill -9 $prid" echo $actual
Output: 20685 kill -9 #The process is still running.
Can you shed some light on where I am going wrong? Thank you very much. All help appreciated.
**************************************** Try $pkill <process-name>
Abhilash
Try using this command.
ps auxwww | grep slapd | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9After awk its single quotes.
Rakesh
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