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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Backwards Message Hack
Article: 7362 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: steve@starport.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky) Subject: Re: Backwards Message Hack Approved: yes@starport.com Sender: steve@starport.com (Stephen R. Savitzky) Lines: 29 Organization: Grand Central Starport Message-ID: STEVE.95Feb12210931@central.starport.COM <jm7FlSk4g9gE078yn@sky.net> <3hlce4$37u@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> In-Reply-To: mjhaisma@eos.ncsu.edu's message of 12 Feb 1995 16:19:16 GMT Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 05:09:31 GMT Status: RO
In article <3hlce4$37u@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> mjhaisma@eos.ncsu.edu (Michael
John Haisma) writes:
Unix Question: Yet again I prove my incompetence with the Unix environment.
I can't figure out why the command(s)
ps -aux|grep <process name>|grep -v grep|cut -f2 -d" "|kill
Won't kill the process(es) with that name. If I leave off the kill, the
command returns the pid(s) correctly, but kill says "too few
arguments".
Because kill wants pids on the command line, and doesn't even *look* at
stdin. Try:
kill `ps -aux|grep <process name>|grep -v grep|cut -f2 -d"
"`
ObHack:
"du | xdu" gives a nice graphical display of disk usage -- it's
a multicolumn
barchart with a column for each level, and the height of each directory's bar
is proportional to its disk usage.
But what I really wanted was line counts in a multimodule C++ program. So,
wc -l */*.[ch] | grep -v total | xdu -title "something
appropriate"&
xwd -frame | xpr -device ps | lpr
made a great transparency for a report to management.
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