[olug] Unix Tip: RESTARTING PROCESSES

[Vincent]

I hate to see people adding "grep -v grep" after a grep statement.  It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Instead of this:
ps -ef | grep myProcess | grep -v grep

Try this next time:
ps -ef | grep [m]yProcess



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Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:37 PM
Subject: [olug] Unix Tip: RESTARTING PROCESSES


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> RESTARTING PROCESSES
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> There are times when you are 
> testing a process and have to
> restart it again and again.
> 
> Instead of doing a ps -ef to 
> know the pid and kill it manually
> every time, you can automate the 
> process by using the following in 
> a script.
> 
> kill `ps -ef | grep \`whoami\` | grep myProcess | grep -v grep
> | awk '{print $2}'`
> 
> The ps command on your flavor may 
> use "ax" instead of "ef".  Where 
> myProcess is the process that needs 
> to be restarted.  The awk commands 
> gets the 2nd field of the line, which
> in this case is the PID.
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