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From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Offer for killall-script
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:18:35 +0200
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>
> > > In the cygwin-apps I have seen some messages
> > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00340.html about a
> > killall
> > > util, which was going to be part of the cygutils packages but was waiting
> > > because of licensing problems.
> > >
> > > For killall I'm using a good working script for about a half year. Perhaps
> > > anyone like this to integrate in the cygutils package. This script allows
> > > killing more than one task, because it does a grep with the first param.
> > >
> > > syntax: killall <taskname> | <tasknamepart>
> > >
> > >
> > > $ cat /bin/killall
> > > ps -ea | grep $1 | gawk '$1 ~ /^[^SI]/ { system("kill -9 " $1); }'
> > See Randal's "Usesless Use of kill -9" posts...
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=insubject:useless+insubject:use+insubject:
> > kill&hl=en&selm=8cpw0y2gb2.fsf_-_%40gadget.cscaper.com&rnum=1
> > i.e. the signal sent should be configurable :-)
> >
> Okay I've read this - Does anyone have a solution for this or should
> this wheel
> have to created again ?

It seems not to be, so this script do it.

$ cat /bin/killall
ps -ea | grep $1 | awk '$1 ~ /^[^SI]/ { system("kill -15 " $1); }'
sleep 1
ps -ea | grep $1 | awk '$1 ~ /^[^SI]/ { system("kill -2 " $1); }'
sleep 1
ps -ea | grep $1 | awk '$1 ~ /^[^SI]/ { system("kill -1 " $1); }'


Regards
 Ralf


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