tye
"Using /bin/grep, awk, and /bin/kill inside Perl! Blasphemy! !! Friar, where is the hot oil?? ;)"

You are right and this is funny. :)

"And that still leaves much room for improvement (and I didn't test this either, sorry)."

I find this one somewhat insulting. I came here to learn. If you read my description maybe you would have been more kind. I posted it bellow so you could read it.

I am sure this is the hard way,but its how I did it and it works. I would like to see the easy way though.

merlyn
"I'm never sure why people bring out the flamethrower to light a candle. I have a little rant on "please stop using kill -9" that I post to comp.unix.questions when I see postings like this. Basically, -9 is harmful because it doesn't give the process a chance to clean up. Try a 2, a 1, and a 15, waiting 1 second each time. If all those fail, then a 9.

Also, -9 is "kill 9 to everyone in the process group". You want +9, certainly!"

I used kill 9, because it is a poorly written stubborn process that will not die any other way. You make some good points.

Ergowolf
Does code make a sound if no one is there to type it?

In reply to RE: Killer by ergowolf
in thread Killer by ergowolf

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