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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why does this not work. I get an error can not find for, do, in, while.
Date: 6 Oct 1996 22:41:13 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <01bbb484$da51d760$63c4abc7@glen>,
"Glen" <gi143@cybercomm.net> writes:
> Can someone please tell me why this does not work.
> I'm useing the korn shell and the C shell. I try to do a man if , for,
> while nothing there. Is there some package I have to install. Thank for
> you help
>
> for user in $*
> do
> echo $user
> ps -aux $user | cut -c9-14 | grep -v PID| while read i
> do
> kill -15 $i
> echo $i
> done
>
> ps -aux $user | cut -c9-14 | grep -v PID| while read i
> do
> kill -9 $i
> echo $i
> done
> done
Well, a "man ps" would be a good start ;)
Try the following:
#! /bin/sh
getpids()
{
ps -axouser,pid | fgrep "$1 " | sed 's/.* //'
}
for user
do
kill `getpids $user`
sleep 5 # give 'em time !
kill -9 `getpids $user`
done
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....