[orbit-user] awk help

[Kishore Ramachandran]

Hi Bin:

kill expects its arguments on command line, so you should do:

kill `ps aux | awk '/protol/ {print $2}'

regards,
Kishore

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:29 PM, <zanb at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>      I am writing a command to kill process using awk.
>
> ps aux | awk '/protol/ {print $2}' | kill
> however it doesn't work.
>
> I tried the following test,
> ps aux | awk '/process_name/ {print $2}' |sort -r
> it looks correct.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Bin Zan
>
>
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