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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.

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

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Thanks! That did it...

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