killing PIDs from a file
 

What is the best way to kill a number of PIDs that I've isolated from an external file?

So far I've done grep PID badPids | awk {'print$2}'

to get the list of bad PIDS to kill. I've searched through the man pages to no avail and I need to be able to do it from the terminal line, not a script file.

I know that kill -k will do it, but I'm not sure on how to pass the list to kill.

Thanks.

Re: killing PIDs from a file
 

awk '{ system("kill " $2) }'

Re: killing PIDs from a file
 

Thanks! That did it...