On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote:
> > Up arrow, edit, enter, until you get it right. I often misread numbers,
> > which is especially bad when I run 'ps' or 'top' and find that 12345 is
> > the process to kill, so I do it, and nothing (obvious) happens so I
> > re-read and its actual PID is 12354. Oops. (What did I kill instead?)
> > So typoes aren't a "newbie" thing necessarily.
> >
> This is an easy fix, 'killall' + the process name. So to kill mplayer,
> type 'killall mplayer.'
> Be careful that you dont have multiple instances running though!
Yeah, but what if I want to go away is "vi .bashrc" but I want to keep "vi
.login"? Also, scripts are listed as "/bin/ksh /export/bin/logmonitor"
(or whatever), which makes them hard to kill by name, but easy (modulo
misreading) by PID. It's easier to find the PID than to check for
uniqueness of the executable's name. And don't use killall in another OS
without checking its man page first; Linux's definition of "killall" is
... odd.
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