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kill a group of process within the same name

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#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# -ne 1 ]];then
    echo "process name?"
    exit 0
fi

all=`ps -A|grep $1`
for i in $all
do
    p=`echo $i |grep -x -o -E "[0-9]+"`
    if [[ -z $p ]]; then
        continue
    fi

    sudo kill $p
done

ps -A|grep $1

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ccpizza 14 years, 9 months ago  # | flag

why don't you use pgrep?

Created by J Y on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 (MIT)
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