Comments on: Select an arbitrary column of text in UNIX http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/161/select-an-arbitrary-column-of-text-in-unix/ Computer and technology tutorials and guides Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:18:34 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/161/select-an-arbitrary-column-of-text-in-unix/comment-page-1/#comment-2891 Fri, 26 May 2006 01:36:45 +0000 guid-fix-me!#comment-2891 ps -ef|awk '{print $2}' I use it like follows... ps -ef|grep <filter string>|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -15 Cheers. ps -ef|awk ‘{print $2}’

I use it like follows…

ps -ef|grep <filter string>|awk ‘{print $2}’|xargs kill -15

Cheers.

]]> By: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/161/select-an-arbitrary-column-of-text-in-unix/comment-page-1/#comment-2672 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:38:10 +0000 guid-fix-me!#comment-2672 I don't know if you've experienced consistency problems, but I have been using cut to get pid information from ps for a long time. For example 'ps -ef | cut -c 10-15' works fine for me. I don’t know if you’ve experienced consistency problems, but I have been using cut to get pid information from ps for a long time. For example ‘ps -ef | cut -c 10-15′ works fine for me.

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