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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!usenet From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why does this not work. I get an error can not find for, do, in, while. Date: 6 Oct 1996 22:41:13 GMT Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <539ci9$im@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <01bbb484$da51d760$63c4abc7@glen> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <01bbb484$da51d760$63c4abc7@glen>, "Glen" <gi143@cybercomm.net> writes: > Can someone please tell me why this does not work. > I'm useing the korn shell and the C shell. I try to do a man if , for, > while nothing there. Is there some package I have to install. Thank for > you help > > for user in $* > do > echo $user > ps -aux $user | cut -c9-14 | grep -v PID| while read i > do > kill -15 $i > echo $i > done > > ps -aux $user | cut -c9-14 | grep -v PID| while read i > do > kill -9 $i > echo $i > done > done Well, a "man ps" would be a good start ;) Try the following: #! /bin/sh getpids() { ps -axouser,pid | fgrep "$1 " | sed 's/.* //' } for user do kill `getpids $user` sleep 5 # give 'em time ! kill -9 `getpids $user` done -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....