Title: Unix: Killing a process using ps, grep and nawk Tags: unix|unix-grep|unix-awk Date: 2013-02-09 12:29:24 -0500 Author: Denevell
ps ax | grep -v grep | grep PROCESSNAME | nawk '{print $1}'
This will show your processes, remove any with the word 'grep' in them, grep your PROCESSNAME, run nawk to get the pid of it.
If you pass this to kill -9, you'll kill the service:
kill -9 `ps ax | grep -v grep | grep PROCESSNAME | nawk '{print $1}'`