ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'
If you wanted to kill the returned PID's:
ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print $2}' | xargs -i kill {}
$ ps -ef | awk '/mingetty/ && !/awk/ {print}' root 4976 1 0 Jul01 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 root 4977 1 0 Jul01 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 4978 1 0 Jul01 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 4979 1 0 Jul01 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 4980 1 0 Jul01 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 4981 1 0 Jul01 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
As an alternative to using an additional grep -v grep you can use a simple regular expression in the search pattern (first letter is something out of the single letter list ;-)) to drop the grep command itself. Show Sample Output
Trick to avoid the form: grep process | grep - v grep Show Sample Output
Get the PID of a process by name Show Sample Output
preferred way to query ps for a specific process name (not supported with all flavors of ps, but will work on just about any linux afaik) Show Sample Output
faster ;) but your idea is really cool
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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