Unix Kill processes

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi guys,
I am new to Unix shell scripting. Can anyone of you tell me how to kill all the processes at a time for a particular user?(No listing the process ID of each process in the kill -9 command).

Thanks in Advance,
-Hary

2

Try this....

ps -ef | grep "USERID" | cut -f 3,4 -d " " | tr "\n" " " | xargs kill -9

3

This would work too.

ps -ef | grep USERID | grep -v grep | awk -F" " '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9

4

you can use pkill with -u option

5

Thanks everyone. It works!!

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ps -fu <USERID>| awk -F" " '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9