Andy Smith wrote:
Oh yes, definitely. For example I find myself doing multiple file
renames in a shell script even though almost every system comes with
a rename script/command these days.
That's the important bit: *almost* every system has these commands and
fixes. It's good to know
2009/5/17 hants...@googlemail.com
ps -A | grep ktorrent followed by
kill seems to have cured the problem.
I have had to do such things that many times that I came up with a one liner :
ps -eafw | grep morituri | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
Disclaimers:
Different people have
Hi Victor,
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
I have had to do such things that many times that I came up with a one liner :
ps -eafw | grep morituri | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
Disclaimers:
Different people have different favourite 'ps' invocations
Andy Smith wrote:
Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;)
I use killall. What's the difference?
Dan
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2009/5/18 Daniel Pope ma...@mauveweb.co.uk:
Andy Smith wrote:
Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;)
I use killall. What's the difference?
More than one way to do it I suppose. Just looking over the man page
there looks like some overlap and some distinct features on each
On Mon May 18, 2009 at 19:08:07 +0100, Daniel Pope wrote:
Someone else would use pkill instead of the lot of it. ;)
I use killall. What's the difference?
On Solaris pkill does what you want, if it is available.
On Solaris killall kills *all* processes.
That's the kind of mistake you
Steve Kemp wrote:
That's the kind of mistake you only make once ..
So that's why the manpage says Be warned that typing killall _name_ may
not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done
by a privileged user.!
Dan
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Hello,
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:34:30PM +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
Semi seriously though: I do notice how as new releases come around, if
one has come from a previous release there is probably a tendency to
stick with the familiar way even if there are new easier ways.
Oh yes,
Found this had gone from a dummy address and that is why it hadn't arrived -
sorry, Paul.
On Sunday 17 May 2009 20:14:31 you wrote:
Please tell us a bit about the machine. OS and version. What software you
have running.
Do you have bittorrent?
