Quoting Che Sosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The problem when I use grep with pstree, like `pstree -p | grep > process_name` is that the lines of the child processes are also > included, what I want is to get only the PID of the parent process for > the kill.
Try using pgrep -o <name of process> and then if u want to kill it, use pkill -o <name of process> -- http://turing.cs.msuiit.edu.ph/~ddd/blog/ When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts! --larry ellison CEO, Oracle Corp. _________________________________________ Mindanao State University - Iligan Campus Visit us at http://www.msuiit.edu.ph. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
