Hi, I am trying to create a script that will kill a process. I have a file (proc.txt) which contains the process number but I don't seem to be able to tie the content of the file to the "kill -9" command to kill it. Any ideas? Brian

Hi Brian, a small > cat proc.txt | xargs -l1 kill -9 should do it (and work with several PID lines too if any). But if this doesn't work you probably have unsufficient permissions to kill the process involved. Bye

Thanks for that, got it working!!! Brian

#!/bin/ksh if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then process_name=$1 ps_count=`ps -ef | grep -v 'grep' | grep -v 'kill' | grep -i -c $process_name` echo "Process count: $ps_count" set -A array_name `ps -ef | grep -i $process_name | grep -v 'grep' | grep -v 'kill' | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u` print "ps -ef | grep -i $process_name | grep -v 'grep' | grep -v 'kill' | awk '{print \$2 \$8}' | sort -u -n" print "${array_name[*]}" kill_count=0 while [ $kill_count -lt $ps_count ] do kill -9 ${array_name[$kill_count]} # print "kill -15 ${array_name[$kill_count]}" ((kill_count=kill_count+1)) done else print "Usage: $0 process_name" print "" fi