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


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