How to get PID of process by specifying process name and store it in a variable to use further

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By using  ucbps  command i am able to get all PIDs     ucbps     Userid     PID     CPU    Mem    FD Used   Server                  Port                                                                                  512        5783    2 50   16 30  350       managed1 adrrtwls02     61001    512        8896    2 70   21 10  393       admin adrrtwls02        61000    512        9053    2 70   17 10  351       managed2 adrrtwls02     61002   I want to do it like this  but don t know how to do   variable get pid of process by processname  Then use this command kill -9 variable

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Another possibility would be to use pidof it usually comes with most distributions  It will return you the PID of a given process by using it s name   pidof process name   This way you could store that information in a variable and execute kill -9 on it      bin bash pid  pidof process name  kill -9  pid

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If you want to kill -9 based on a string  you might want to try kill first  you can do something like this   ps axf   grep  lt process name gt    grep -v grep   awk   print  kill -9    1     This will show you what you re about to kill  very  very important  and just pipe it to sh when the time comes to execute   ps axf   grep  lt process name gt    grep -v grep   awk   print  kill -9    1     sh

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use grep  n ame to remove that grep -v name this is first    Sec using xargs in the way how it is up there is wrong to rnu whatever it is piped you have to use -i   interactive mode  otherwise you may have issues with the command   ps axf   grep    grep -v grep   awk   print  kill -9    1      ps aux  grep  n ame   awk   print  kill -9    2     isnt that better

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pids   pgrep  lt name gt     will get you the pids of all processes with the given name  To kill them all  use  kill -9  pids   To refrain from using a variable and directly kill all processes with a given name issue  pkill -9  lt name gt

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On a single line     pgrep -f process name   xargs kill -9

[unix] How to get PID of process by specifying process name and store it in a variable to use further?

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