I'm trying to kill process by name. It's supposed to kill children processes first then the parent later but I only get parent killed. Help needed please. EDIT: SOLVED
Please try it this way:
PID=$(ps -aef | grep `whoami` | grep $argument | grep -v grep | grep -v $$ | awk '{print $2}'
for x in ${PID[#]}; do
CPID=$(ps -aef | grep `whoami` | grep $PID | grep -v grep | grep -v $$ | awk '{print $3}'
for y in ${CPID[#]}; do
kill $y
done
kill $x
done
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New to shell scripting and just writing a little script to check if a process is running, if I use
PROCESS_NUM="ps -ef | grep '$1' | grep -v 'grep' | wc -l"
I get a "ps: illegal argument: |" error although if I echo out PROCESS_NUM and ctrl paste in the line it works just fine manually. Not sure why the | pipe is being troublesome here. Any help is much appreciated!
If you are trying to assig the output of ps -ef | grep '$1' | grep -v 'grep' | wc -l command to PROCESS_NUM variable, you need to use below:
PROCESS_NUM=`ps -ef | grep '$1' | grep -v 'grep' | wc -l`
or
PROCESS_NUM=$(ps -ef | grep '$1' | grep -v 'grep' | wc -l)
Using "", will treat the value inside of it as a string, except for some special character
When I run the following command in my terminal I get the expected value :
delayedjobs="$(ps aux | grep delayed_job | grep -v grep | awk '{print $11}' | awk 'END{print}' | cut -d "." -f2)" && echo $delayedjobs
However, when I run the following script, the variable returns as "/bin/bash"
#!/bin/bash
delayedjobs="$(ps aux | grep delayed_job | grep -v grep | awk '{print $11}' | awk 'END{print}' | cut -d "." -f2)"
echo ${delayedjobs}
root#central:/home/tblake# ./myscript.sh
/bin/bash
Can anyone explain this? Im having a heck of a time figuring this out.
Has you named your skript delayed_job ? Your script detect his own process.
Following is my script, every time I run this it goes into else part. when I run the TEST2EVAL command it gives me 1
#!/bin/sh
TEST2EVAL='ps auxf | grep some.jar | grep -v grep | wc -l'
if [ "$TEST2EVAL" = 1 ]
then
java -jar /path/to/jar &
else
echo "Running"
fi
Assuming you are trying to find out if any processes are running with some.jar on their command lines you probably want:
if pgrep -f some.jar; then
echo running;
else
echo not running;
fi
In in order save the output of a command in a variable, you have to enclose the command in backticks (`), not single quotes ('). Thus, change the second line of your script to:
TEST2EVAL=`ps auxf | grep some.jar | grep -v grep | wc -l`
You are using the wrong quotes for command substitution: not single quotes:
TEST2EVAL='ps auxf | grep some.jar | grep -v grep | wc -l'
but backquotes:
TEST2EVAL=`ps auxf | grep some.jar | grep -v grep | wc -l`
Better yet, use TEST2EVAL=$(ps auxf | grep some.jar | grep -v grep | wc -l) instead. It's much clearer, supported by all POSIX-compatible shells, and can be nested more easily when necessary.
I am writing a script to kill all instances of the same process. As it is going to be used on Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris, I need to use only built-in bash (sh) functions. That's why killall, pkill, etc. don't work for me.
Once there is only one instance of a process it should be just killed in traditional way:
kill -TERM `ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep $process | awk '{print $2}'`
However sometimes the program has extra instances running and that's why ps -ef | … returns more than one PID. That needs to be reported.
example:
bash-3.2$ ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep perl | awk '{print $2}'
5267
5268
5269
5270
5271
My thought was to store those values in a temporary variable and then send kill signal to each in a for loop.
bash-3.2$ tmp=`ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep perl | awk '{print $2}'`
bash-3.2$ echo $tmp
5267 5268 5269 5270 5271
However I still need the information if such a case occurred (how many instances were present).
It seems I need to check the whole string stored in the tmp variable and maybe count spaces?
Anyway the questions reduces to how to check how many values the $tmp variable stores?
For maximum portability and reliability, use -A (POSIX synonym of -e) and a custom format with -o rather than -f.
Your filtering of the output of ps is brittle: it may match other processes. You've had to exclude the grep process, and you may need to exclude your script as well, and there may be other completely innocent processes caught in the fray (such as your script itself) because their command line happens to contain $process as a substring. Make your filtering as strict as possible. With ps -o pid= -o comm=, you get just two columns (PID and command without arguments) with no header.
You don't need to use a loop to do the killing, kill accepts multiple arguments. For the counting, let the shell do it: you have a whitespace-separated list of numbers, to let the shell do the word splitting (with $(…) outside quotes) and count the number of resulting words ($#).
count_and_kill_processes () {
set -- $(ps -A -o pid= -o comm= |
awk -v "name=$process" '$2 == name {print $1}')
count=$#
if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then kill "$#"; fi
}
count_and_kill_processes foo
# now the number of killed processes is in $count
If your shell is bash or ksh on all machines, you can use an array.
pids=($(ps -A -o pid= -o comm= |
awk -v "name=$process" '$2 == name {print $1}') )
if [[ $# -ne 0 ]]; then kill "$#"; fi
# the number of killed processes is ${#pids}
use xargs:
ps aux | grep -ie perl | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
You can use a loop which should work in both cases:
for pid in $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep $process | awk '{print $2}'); do
echo $pid
done
Or count the number of matches:
if [ $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep $process | awk '{print $2}' | wc -l) -gt 1 ]
then
# more than one
fi
I need to implement a shell script that kills a process. The problem is that I need to do a conditional to be able to see if the process is running or not.
This is my code, but it is not working:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -x "MY_PROCCESS_NAME"]; then
killall MY_PROCCESS_NAME
else
echo "Doesn't exist"
fi
This is the error:
line 3: [: missing `]'
to check if a process is running on mac os x you can use:
pid=$(ps -fe | grep 'process name' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
if you want to reduce the number of shell scripts you can enclose one of the characters of the name of the process in square brackets:
pid=$(ps -fe | grep '[p]rocess name' | awk '{print $2}')
combined in your test this would look like:
pid=$(ps -fe | grep '[p]rocess name' | awk '{print $2}')
if [[ -n $pid ]]; then
kill $pid
else
echo "Does not exist"
fi
it's a little more complicated than you would need to do under linux as you generally have the 'pgrep' command, which is the rough equivalent of the 'ps -fe | grep ... | grep -v grep'
not sure if it would work in OSX, it works in ubuntu.
but as a one liner:
ps aux | awk '$11~/vim/ {PID = $2} END {if (PID) print "kill -9 "PID; else print "echo no process"}' | bash
what it does is it finds a process, in this case, vim and returns the kill -9 pid if no string is found it returns echo no process it then pipes the output to bash.