Kill all Zombie processes (Guaranteed!)
No output. But if you want to see the PIDs of your Zombies' parents just use this piece:
ps -xaw -o state -o ppid | grep Z | grep -v PID | awk '{print $2}
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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. Show Sample Output
1kill -9 `ps -xaw -o state -o pid | grep Z | grep -v PID | awk '{print $2}'` -
just a leaner, smaller version. Love the original idea!
0kill -9 `ps xawo state=,pid=|sed -n 's/Z //p'` -
May need to substitute 'awk' for 'gawk'.
0ps axo state,ppid | awk '!/PPID/$1~"Z"{print $2}' | xargs -r kill -9 -
Did some research and found the previous command wrong, we don't kill a zombie but its parent. Just made some modifcation to khashmeshab's command.
-4ps -xaw -o state,ppid | grep Z | grep -v PID | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9
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kill -9 `ps -xaw -o state -o ppid | grep Z | grep -v PID | awk '{print $2}'`Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.7/FAQ this works:kill -9 `ps xaw -o state -o ppid | grep Z | grep -v PID | awk '{print $2}'`