Re: Can Zsh do this for me?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Alexey Tourbin wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:08:46PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
> >     I'm writing a command to kill a process by name, not by PID, just
> > like 'pidof' but without using 'pidof' ;))) It's pretty easy using
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> Do you have killall(1)?

Careful, since there are two versions of this --- Solaris has a
`killall' which does exactly that; it's used by shutdown.  The other
one, common on Linux, which takes a command name or similar and kills
only those, is more useful.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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