#! /bin/sh # $Id: killall,v 1.2 2004/09/17 19:56:18 tom Exp $ # Linux has a program that does this correctly. for prog in $* do pid=`ps -a |fgrep $prog |fgrep -v fgrep|sed -e 's/^[ ]*//' -e 's/ .*//' ` if test -n "$pid" ; then echo killing pid=$pid, $prog kill -1 $pid || \ kill -15 $pid || \ kill -9 $pid fi done