On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:30:02 +0100, Zhang Weiwu scribbled: > Hello. I usually start amuled and kill it after a few hours, I do such > thing once a day. Usually I do it like this: > > In one console: > $ amuled > > In another: > > zhangwe...@mesopotamia:~$ ps ax | grep mule 13595 zhangwei 14080 R N > amuled > 13598 zhangwei 14080 S N amuled > 13600 zhangwei 14080 S N amuled > 13603 zhangwei 14080 S N amuled > 13612 zhangwei 1352 S grep mule > zhangwe...@mesopotamia:~$ kill 13595 > > Note that I should always kill the least-numbered process, I tried > otherwise and always end up in trouble. > > Question is, how do I script-lize this? The only difficulty is to get > the pid in script. I could use an one-liner awk script to analyses the > output of ps, but that sounds overkill. Is there a better way? > > Best. & Thanks in advance!
Is not the PID returned in $$ ?? -- >@< Bill Dennen ieee1...@hotmail.com Of all the things I miss, I miss my mind the most ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ievtcv$lt...@speranza.aioe.org