On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:21:46PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > 
> > for i in `ps a | grep whateverprogram | awk '{print $1}'`; do kill
> > -WHATEVERSIGNAL $i; done
> 
> Mmm.. this construct is all too common, especially in stop scripts
> for unixware and solaris.  It has one major bug in that the

This is why I prefer to use:
ps a | awk '$5 == "name_or_path_to_kill" {print $1}'

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