just a leaner, smaller version. Love the original idea!

It identifies the parents of the Zombie processes and kill them. So the new parent of orphan Zombies will be the Init process and he is already waiting for reaping them. Be careful! It may also kill your useful processes just because they are not taking care and waiting for their children (bad parents!).

Tested on FreeBSD 8.1 and CSH. The scripts works correctly but the Zombies do not die! I hope it will run and function as expected in Linux and others.

Somtime one wants to kill process not by name of executable, but by a parameter name. In such cases killall is not suitable method.

Removed unneeded grep -v by making the initial grep unable to match itself.

search_criteria = what do you want to kill

pid = pid of you dont kill

The pgrep retrieves the PID, then the KILL receive it, and kill it...

It works also if the application has more than one instance....

I like much more the perl solution, but without using perl. It launches a backgroup process that will kill the command if it lasts too much.

A bigger function:

check_with_timeout() {

[ "$DEBUG" ] && set -x

COMMAND=$1

TIMEOUT=$2

RET=0

# Launch command in backgroup

[ ! "$DEBUG" ] && exec 6>&2 # Link file descriptor #6 with stderr.

[ ! "$DEBUG" ] && exec 2> /dev/null # Send stderr to null (avoid the Terminated messages)

$COMMAND 2>&1 >/dev/null &

COMMAND_PID=$!

[ "$DEBUG" ] && echo "Background command pid $COMMAND_PID, parent pid $$"

# Timer that will kill the command if timesout

sleep $TIMEOUT && ps -p $COMMAND_PID -o pid,ppid |grep $$ | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill &

KILLER_PID=$!

[ "$DEBUG" ] && echo "Killer command pid $KILLER_PID, parent pid $$"

wait $COMMAND_PID

RET=$?

# Kill the killer timer

[ "$DEBUG" ] && ps -e -o pid,ppid |grep $KILLER_PID | awk '{print $1}' | xargs echo "Killing processes: "

ps -e -o pid,ppid |grep -v PID | grep $KILLER_PID | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill

wait

sleep 1

[ ! "$DEBUG" ] && exec 2>&6 6>&- # Restore stderr and close file descriptor #6.

return $RET

}

Find and kill multiple instances of a process with one simple command.

- this returns the Process ID for the signal firefox

- this kills the signal that had the given pid

cmd1 `cmd1` or cmd1 $(cmd1)

- here is the syntax for cmd2 to be executed first. Then the call to cmd2 is substituted with the output of cmd2, and cmd1 is executed.

Another way of counting the line output of tail over 10s not requiring pv.

Cut to have the average per second rate :

tail -n0 -f access.log>/tmp/tmp.log & sleep 10; kill $! ; wc -l /tmp/tmp.log | cut -c-2

You can also enclose it in a loop and send stderr to /dev/null :

while true; do tail -n0 -f access.log>/tmp/tmp.log & sleep 2; kill $! ; wc -l /tmp/tmp.log | cut -c-2; done 2>/dev/null

or "Execute a command with a timeout"

Run a command in background, sleep 10 seconds, kill it.

You can test it with:

find /& sleep10; kill $!

Useful command to get information about running java process and treads, to see log look into the default log for your java application

This will kill a specific process you don't know the PID of, when pidof and pgrep are not available, for example on OS X. var1 is created so that the whitespace can be trimmed before passing off to kill.

This is a more accurate way to watch the progress of a dd process. The $DDPID=$! is needed so that you don't get the PID of the sleep. The sleep 1 is needed because in my testing at least, if you run kill -USR1 against dd too quickly, it will kill it off instead of display the status. So you need to wait a second, probably so that it can configure itself to trap the USR1 signal.

Add that and "cont () { ps -ec | grep $@ | kill -SIGCONT `awk '{print $1}'`; }" (without the quotes) to you bash profile and then use it to pause and resume processes safely

I wanted to create a copy of my whole laptop disk on an lvm disk of the same size.

First I created the logical volume: lvcreate -L120G -nlaptop mylvms

SOURCE: dd if=/dev/sda bs=16065b | netcat ip-target 1234

TARGET: nc -l -p 1234 | dd of=/dev/mapper/mylvms-laptop bs=16065b

to follow its process you issue the following command in a different terminal

STATS: on target in a different terminal: watch -n60 -- kill -USR1 $(pgrep dd)

(see http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4356/output-stats-from-a-running-dd-command-to-see-its-progress)

Best way I know to get rid of .bash_history and don't allow bash to save the current one on exit

Edit: added ~/ before .bash_history, just in case... ;)