Passing a variable from awk to shell
Dr Malcolm E.Parker
Hi
I am pretty new to this game so apologies if the question seems simple.
I wish to run a script via cron, that searches for a process and then kills
it. I use the following code to search for the PID :-
ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 ;
print number}' ;
and sure enough, the variable, number, is the PID I want. How do I then pass
this value to the Bourne shell to run a kill -9 on?
Thankyou in advance. Mal.
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Brian S Hiles
Dr Malcolm E.Parker (chs...@surrey.ac.uk) wrote:
: I am pretty new to this game so apologies if the question seems simple.
: I wish to run a script via cron, that searches for a process and then kills
: it. I use the following code to search for the PID :-
: ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 }
: this value to the Bourne shell to run a kill -9 on?
ps -fu chs1mp |
awk '$1=="chs1mp" && $8~/^xclock/ { print $2 }' - |
xargs kill -9
-or-
ps -fu chs1mp |
awk '$1=="chs1mp" && $8~/^xclock/ { print $2 }' - |
while read pid
do kill -9 $pid
done
-or-
ps -fu chs1mp |
awk '$1=="chs1mp" && $8~/^xclock/ { print "kill -9 " $2 | "sh -s" }' -
comp.lang.awk may also be a newsgroup of interest to you.
-Brian
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Cal Dunigan
On 26 Nov 1996, Dr Malcolm E.Parker wrote:
> I wish to run a script via cron, that searches for a process and then kills
> it. I use the following code to search for the PID :-
>
> print number}' ;
You're almost there, now just use the shell's process substitution
feature:
kill -9 `ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ {
print $2}'`
This *may* give you some trouble if there is more than one process
that meets the search criteria. If so just use printf.
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Bill Marcum
In article <57fa2n$n...@info-server.surrey.ac.uk>, Dr Malcolm E.Parker wrote:
>Hi
> I am pretty new to this game so apologies if the question seems simple.
>it. I use the following code to search for the PID :-
>
>ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 ;
> print number}' ;
>
>this value to the Bourne shell to run a kill -9 on?
>
print number}' `
Or
ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 ;
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Neil Moore
chs...@surrey.ac.uk (Dr Malcolm E.Parker) writes:
>
> Hi
> I am pretty new to this game so apologies if the question seems simple.
> I wish to run a script via cron, that searches for a process and then kills
> it. I use the following code to search for the PID :-
>
> ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 ;
> print number}' ;
>
> and sure enough, the variable, number, is the PID I want. How do I then pass
> this value to the Bourne shell to run a kill -9 on?
>
> Thankyou in advance. Mal.
kill -9 `ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2;
print number}' `
`` will convert a program's stdout into command-line parameters.
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(finger amet...@170.180.106.55 for my Geek Code/Nethack Code)
Lawson Hanson
chs...@surrey.ac.uk (Dr Malcolm E.Parker) writes:
>Hi
> I am pretty new to this game so apologies if the question seems simple.
>I wish to run a script via cron, that searches for a process and then kills
>it. I use the following code to search for the PID :-
>ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 ;
> print number}' ;
>and sure enough, the variable, number, is the PID I want. How do I then pass
>this value to the Bourne shell to run a kill -9 on?
>Thankyou in advance. Mal.
>--
>Dr Malcolm Parker | email: m.e.p...@surrey.ac.uk
>Department of Chemistry, | www: http://www.chem.surrey.ac.uk/~chs1mp
>University of Surrey, |
>Guildford, Surrey. GU2 5XH. UK. | Tel: (01483) 300800x2580 Fax: (01483) 259514
One way (and I'm sure there are always dozens, because this is Unix),
would be to capture the output of your command into a variable:
PID=`ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { print $2 }'-`
^ ^
+----- NOTE the backward single quote characters, which --------+
cause the command to be evaluated, and the
result is assigned to shell variable PID.
Then if the result is non-null, use the result with "kill":
if [ -n "${PID}" ]; then
kill ${PID}
fi
I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Lawson Hanson
Dave Brown
In article <57fa2n$n...@info-server.surrey.ac.uk>,
Dr Malcolm E.Parker <chs...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
: Hi
: I am pretty new to this game so apologies if the question seems simple.
: I wish to run a script via cron, that searches for a process and then kills
: it. I use the following code to search for the PID :-
:
: ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 ;
: print number}' ;
:
: and sure enough, the variable, number, is the PID I want. How do I then pass
: this value to the Bourne shell to run a kill -9 on?
Other people have told you how to do what you want, so I'm going to
comment on something else.
If you have to use kill -9 to get rid of a process, then it's buggy and
you should fix it or remove it.
Kill -9 is only for killing badly-written code that refuses to
acknowledge the proper signals--INT, HUP, and TERM. Kill -9 doesn't
give programs a chance to remove any temporary files or do any other
kind of clean-up. It's a bad thing. Don't use it on a routine basis.
It's only for emergencies.
DO NOT USE KILL -9.
--Dave (who uses kill -9 as a sysadmin, because it puts up this wonderful
"Killed" message on the terminal, which is very good for dropping
hints to users as to what sort of programs I don't want them
to run. Otherwise, I don't use it)
Randal Schwartz
This month's Useless Use of Kill -9 award goes to...
>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Marcum <bma...@iglou1.iglou.com> writes:
Bill> kill -9 `ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 ;
Bill> print number}' `
Bill> Or
Bill> ps -fu chs1mp | awk ' $8~/xclock/ && $1~/chs1mp/ { number=$2 ;
Bill> system ("kill -9 " number)}'
No no no. Don't use kill -9.
It doesn't give the process a chance to cleanly:
1) shut down socket connections
2) clean up temp files
3) inform its children that it is going away
4) reset its terminal characteristics
and so on and so on and so on.
Generally, send 15, and wait a second or two, and if that doesn't
work, send 2, and if that doesn't work, send 1. If that doesn't,
REMOVE THE BINARY because the program is badly behaved!
Don't use kill -9. Don't bring out the combine harvester just to tidy
up the flower pot.
Just another Useless Use of Usenet,
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Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer
dagb...@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) writes:
>DO NOT USE KILL -9.
>--Dave (who uses kill -9 as a sysadmin, because it puts up this wonderful
> "Killed" message on the terminal, which is very good for dropping
> hints to users as to what sort of programs I don't want them
> to run. Otherwise, I don't use it)
Tsk, tsk, it's much more fun to do a "kill -BUS" or a "kill -SEGV".
See them firing up the debugger abd looking for the bug that doesn't
exist.
Casper
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In article <8cpw0y2g...@gadget.cscaper.com>,
Randal Schwartz <mer...@stonehenge.com> wrote:
| Generally, send 15, and wait a second or two, and if that doesn't
| work, send 2, and if that doesn't work, send 1. If that doesn't,
| REMOVE THE BINARY because the program is badly behaved!
It might also be hanging due to a badly written device driver in
the kernel, so the way to kill the program must be:
kill -15 (SIGTERM)
wait 2s
if not dead
kill -2 (SIGINT)
wait 2s
if not dead
kill -1 (SIGHUP)
wait 2s
if not dead
kill -9 (SIGKILL)
wait 1s
if not dead
fix device driver
else
remove program binary
end if
end if
end if
end if
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Dave Brown
In article <casper.8...@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com>,
Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer <Caspe...@Holland.Sun.COM> wrote:
: dagb...@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) writes:
: >DO NOT USE KILL -9.
:
: >--Dave (who uses kill -9 as a sysadmin, because it puts up this wonderful
: > "Killed" message on the terminal, which is very good for dropping
: > hints to users as to what sort of programs I don't want them
: > to run. Otherwise, I don't use it)
:
: Tsk, tsk, it's much more fun to do a "kill -BUS" or a "kill -SEGV".
:
: exist.
Oh, I've done that too--I had a user who insisted on running IRC bots
on my system. I eventually managed convinced him that they were far
too buggy to work properly. :-)
Mike Miscevic
Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer (Caspe...@Holland.Sun.COM) wrote:
: Tsk, tsk, it's much more fun to do a "kill -BUS" or a "kill -SEGV".
:
: See them firing up the debugger abd looking for the bug that doesn't
: exist.
Looks like someone's been BOFH'ing the users... :)
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