On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:35:36PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > 'pkill xine' is better if you have a new enough version of procps, since > 'killall' does ... let's say surprising things on System V-ish variants > of Unix. will that kill any process with xine in its name? or just processes called 'xine'
killall xine didnt work as i think the arguments are included in the process name. thanks for your comments.. [and everyone else -like the look of the awk but really dont know anything about it so gotta do some reading -maybe after exams!] hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]