csh weirdness (HELP!)
Rob McMahon
cudcv at warwick.ac.uk
Thu Aug 16 19:04:17 AEST 1990
In article <8000007 at hpopd.HP.COM> bd at hpopd.HP.COM (Bob Desinger) writes:
>> to kill every instance of a.out I get
>> `ps | grep a.out | awk '{printf("%d ",$1);}'`: Ambiguous.
>
>Can you work around this by changing the awk program to generate the
>kill commands, then piping the awk output to the shell? ...
The best workaround is just to use
\kill `ps | grep a.out | awk '{printf("%d ",$1);}'`
to avoid using the shell builtin.
Rob
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