SUMMARY: Output redirection

A big thank you to the respondents. More still coming in.

Chris
William Yudlowsky
Mathew Holger
Kent Perrier
Dan Astroorian
Stan Francis
Sanjiv Bhatia
Jason Shatzkam
Bryan Moore
David Beaudoin
Thomas Knox
Mark Neill
Kevin Buterbaugh
Kalsi Ravinder
Gary Jensen


The consensus seems to favor:

kill -HUP `ps -ef |grep ( script name) |awk '{print $2 }'`

Although also suggested were the following:
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#!/bin/tcsh

foreach kk (` /bin/ps -ef |  grep  ( script name) |awk '{print $2}'`)
kill -HUP $kk
end

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check out the man page for pgrep / pkill.
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what you want is:

  ps -ef |grep ( script name) |awk '{print $2 }' |xargs kill -HUP
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There are a lot of ways to do this, some that are most obvious are:

1. kill -HUP `ps -ef |grep (script name) | awk '{print $2 }'`

2. ps -ef |grep (script name) | awk '{print "kill -HUP " $2 }' | sh

3. ps -ef |grep (script name) | awk '{print $2 }' | xargs kill -HUP

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pid=`ps -ef |grep ( script name) |awk '{print $2 }'`
kill -HUP $pid
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If you're on Solaris 2.8,then you can simply do a
 "kill -HUP `pgrep script_name`" (those are back
ticks, not single quotes, BTW). 
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You're using kill wrong.  Kill takes parameters, not input.  ( Good
point...jec)

You want to do:


#>  Kill -9 `ps -ef |grep ( script name) |awk '{print $2 }'`

Note that the outside quotes in that example are backquotes, and the quotes
at the awk are forward, single quotes.
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man xargs
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Pretty easy, you almost had it.

kill -HUP `ps -ef | grep (script name) | nawk '{print $2}'`
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Try this:

ps -ef | grep (script name) | awk '{print $2 }' | xargs kill -HUP

The xargs command usually takes care of these types of situations.
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Try back-ticks: 
    kill -HUP `ps -ef | grep $pat | awk '{print $2}'`

To signal all processes owned by a particular user, you might prefer
    kill -HUP `ps -fu userid | awk '{print $2}'`

You can also do it more conservatively, in two steps:
    pids=`ps -ef | grep $pat | awk '{print $2}'`
    echo $pids	# to make sure the list is reasonable
    kill -HUP $pids

However, if you're running a reasonably recent release of Solaris,
"pkill" (/usr/bin/pkill) is a much easier way to do what you want--check
the man pages for pkill and pgrep.  (I believe these commands were
introduced sometime between Solaris 2.6 and 8.)
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Try | xargs kill -1   instead of the | kill

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