[Linux-disciples] Kill multiple processes

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Jamie Forrest wrote:

> I want to kill all the processes returned by a ps | grep. What's the quickest way to do that?
You could also do

ps aux |grep foo |awk '{print $2}' |xargs kill

(untested, but try it out -- obviously testing first without the 'kill')

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