This command kills all wine instances and each EXE application working on a PC.

Here is command info:

1) ps ax > processes = save process list to file named "processes" (we save it because we don't wont egrep to be found in the future)

2) cat processes | egrep "*.exe |*exe]" = shows the file "processes" and after greps for each *.exe and *exe] in it

3) | awk '{ print $1 }' > pstokill = saves processes PID's to file "pstokill" using awk filter

4) kill $(cat pstokill) = kills each PID in file pstokill, which is shown by cat program

5) rm processes && rm pstokill = removes temporary files

short, sweet, and works after sudoing a new shell.

First version was "ps uw -p $$", but current "ps -o comm= -p $$" just gives shell name

faster ;) but your idea is really cool

Using ps options rather than filtering.

mac os x:

ps aux | awk '{print($1" "$3" "$4" "$11);}' | grep -v "0,0"

linux:

ps aux | awk '{print($1" "$3" "$4" "$11);}' | grep -v "0.0"

This command will list all threads started by a particular pid along with the start time of each thread. This is very valuable when diagnosing thread leaks.

Inspired by #7065

This command allows you to find the effective uid and gid of the Apache process regardless of process name (which can be apache2 or httpd depending on distro).

Simpler.

Kills all process that belongs to the user that runs it - excluding bash, sshd (so putty/ssh session will be spared). The bit that says grep -vE "..." can be extended to include ps line patterns that you want to spare.

If no process can be found on the hitlist, it will print # NOTHING TO KILL. Otherwise, it will print # KILL EM ALL, with the cull list.

STARTED

Mon Oct 18 04:02:01 2010

While going through the source code for the well known ps command, I read about some interesting things.. Namely, that there are a bunch of different fields that ps can try and enumerate for you. These are fields I was not able to find in the man pages, documentation, only in the source.

Here is a longer function that goes through each of the formats recognized by the ps on your machine, executes it, and then prompts you whether you would like to add it or not. Adding it simply adds it to an array that is then printed when you ctrl-c or at the end of the function run. This lets you save your favorite ones and then see the command to put in your .bash_profile like mine at : http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

Note that I had to do the exec method below in order to pause with read.

t ()

{

local r l a P f=/tmp/ps c='command ps wwo pid:6,user:8,vsize:8,comm:20' IFS=' ';

trap 'exec 66

exec 66 $f && command ps L | tr -s ' ' >&$f;

while read -u66 l >&/dev/null; do

a=${l/% */};

$c,$a k -${a//%/} -A;

yn "Add $a" && P[$SECONDS]=$a;

done

}

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

'ps ax' provides the fill list of running processes.

'grep -c [c]at' will find all processes that match 'cat' without matching itself....