[orbit-user] awk help

[jfm3]

>>>>> zanb  <zanb at eden.rutgers.edu> writes:

> 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'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but I think the
'killall' command (man killall) will do what you need without having
to resort to running 'awk' on the output of 'ps'.

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#:jfm3