On Wednesday 09 August 2006 01:54, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I have to kill all processes which has owner as tester, If there > any specific command to that or i have to write script, if i read a > PID into variable i cant kill the processes its not getting killed > below is the script. > > #!/bin/bash > ps -ef |grep bdctest | grep -v root | awk '{print $2}'>out So you now have a list of pids in the file called out. > while read line > do > kill -9 $line ; echo $? > done This reads from stdin. Didn't you want to read from the file out? Maybe an easier way would be to: ps -ef|grep bdctest|grep -v root|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9 -- Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list