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Darshan Chaudhary
Darshan Chaudhary

Reputation: 2233

pipe to kill command

I am trying this out in termnial:

/tmp ps x | grep -m1 firefox | cut -d' ' -f1 | kill -KILL    
kill: not enough arguments

How can I pipe the pid to kill?

I tried this, didn't work

 /tmp ps x | grep -m1 firefox | kill -KILL $(cut -d' ' -f1)
cut: -: Input/output error
kill: not enough arguments

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5869

Answers (1)

Joni
Joni

Reputation: 111239

You can use xargs. This reads the output of command1 and use it as the arguments to run command2:

command1 | xargs command2

In your case

ps x | grep -m1 firefox | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs kill -KILL

Upvotes: 2

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