Search for a process and issue UNIX signals

Hello,

I found this command or rather a sequence these commands to help search and issue signals defined under kill list.

Please see kill -l for the comprehensive list of Unix defined SIGNALS.

now the cool stuff

ps -aef | grep "text/command signature you wanted to search for" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -2

awk - will search and give you the second column value
xargs - passes the pipelined arguments to the following command - Read from the previous command.

kill -2 - SIGINT

Besides, having fun as usual.

~Dixie Sebastianappan