[Help-bash] Find and stop processes

[Danny]

Hi,

I currently have some scripts that are executed via procmail which works just
fine. Just one little issue though, I have no way (apart from doing it manually)
of stopping all of them with one command.

All the scripts are named like this -> "parameters_probe_*.php" (where the * is
the numerical position of the probe).

Is there a way I can search for these filenames (like this):
ps -ax | grep "parameters_probe" then isolate the process ID and then kill them
one by one?

Hope I am making sense.

Thank you

Danny

[John McKown]

Post by Danny
Hi,
I currently have some scripts that are executed via procmail which works just
fine. Just one little issue though, I have no way (apart from doing it manually)
of stopping all of them with one command.
All the scripts are named like this -> "parameters_probe_*.php" (where the * is
the numerical position of the probe).
ps -ax | grep "parameters_probe" then isolate the process ID and then kill them
one by one?
Hope I am making sense.

I think you are. Have you looked at the "killall" command?

killall -r 'parameters_probe_[[:digit:]]+\.php'

The value after the "-r" is a regular expression which need to match
the script name as shown in the "ps" command. You can include a "-i"
switch if you want to be asked to confirm each termination (like "rm
-i" does for deleting files).

Post by Danny
Thank you
Danny

[Greg Wooledge]

Post by John McKown

Post by Danny
ps -ax | grep "parameters_probe" then isolate the process ID and then kill them

I think you are. Have you looked at the "killall" command?

Please stop advising this. Switch your advice to pkill instead, if
you must support this killing-en-masse-by-name nonsense.

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement

[John McKown]

Post by Greg Wooledge

Post by John McKown

Post by Danny
ps -ax | grep "parameters_probe" then isolate the process ID and then kill them

I think you are. Have you looked at the "killall" command?

Please stop advising this. Switch your advice to pkill instead, if
you must support this killing-en-masse-by-name nonsense.
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement

Interesting. I've never run across "pkill" and its family. thanks for
the pointer.

[Danny]

Thank you

Danny