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UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4403- April  1, 2025
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 Unix Tip #4403- April  1, 2025
 
RESTARTING PROCESSES  
  
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.  
  
This tip generously supported by: kasharma@hss.hns.com  
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