ksh: -exec: not found

oab · #1 (**permalink**) 08-12-03, 03:50

when running this query in soalris :

ps -ef | grep xyz | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2 }' | -exec kill -9 {} \;

My objective is to kill all processes that have xyz in common.

Help please.... Thanks

Damian Ibbotson · #2 (**permalink**) 08-12-03, 05:20

Untested...

You'd best make sure that 'xyz' is a pretty unique string. I'll let you judge how safe this is!

kill -9 $(ps -ef | awk '/xyz/ && $3 != thisPPID {print $2}' thisPPID=$$)

henbance · #3 (**permalink**) 08-19-03, 03:17

maybe you can use grep "precise match function" to realize it.
kill -9 `ps -ef |grep "\<xyz\>" |awk '{print $2}'`

just only match the word "xyz", not xxyz,xyz1.

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