Re: How do i obtain the PID of a program already running.

[cwest]

ps -C program_name

From the Chatterbox earlier today, you were wanting to kill all the apache PID's with Perl...

shell> ps -C httpd | perl -pe '($_)=/(\d+)/;`kill -9 $_`'

That should work as root

Enjoy!

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Casey

[cwest]

I can't update my own posts... grrr!

Change perl -pe to perl -ne actually...

ps -C httpd|perl -ne'($_)=/(\d+)/;`kill -9 $_` if $_'

That seems better to me.

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Casey

[merlyn]

No no no. Don't use kill -9. Ever. Grr. Bad code. bad code.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker