RE: Offer for killall-script

["Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>]

> > In the cygwin-apps I have seen some messages
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00340.html about a
> killall
> > util, which was going to be part of the cygutils packages but was waiting
> > because of licensing problems.
> >
> > For killall I'm using a good working script for about a half year. Perhaps
> > anyone like this to integrate in the cygutils package. This script allows
> > killing more than one task, because it does a grep with the first param.
> >
> > syntax: killall <taskname> | <tasknamepart>
> >
> >
> > $ cat /bin/killall
> > ps -ea | grep $1 | gawk '$1 ~ /^[^SI]/ { system("kill -9 " $1); }'
> See Randal's "Usesless Use of kill -9" posts...
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=insubject:useless+insubject:use+insubject:
> kill&hl=en&selm=8cpw0y2gb2.fsf_-_%40gadget.cscaper.com&rnum=1
> i.e. the signal sent should be configurable :-)
>
Okay I've read this - Does anyone have a solution for this or should this wheel
have to created again ?

Regards
Ralf


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