How to get PID of process by specifying process name and store it in a variable to use further?

Question

I am using the "ucbps" command I can get all PIDs

 $ ucbps

   Userid PID CPU % Mem % FD Used Server Port

   =========================================================================

   512 5783 2.50 16.30 350 managed1_adrrtwls02 61001

   512 8896 2.70 21.10 393 admin_adrrtwls02 61000

   512 9053 2.70 17.10 351 managed2_adrrtwls02 61002

I tried to do it like this, But have no idea how to do

1. variable=get the pid from the process by process name.
2. Then I used this command kill -9 variable.

Answer 1

To kill -9 based on the string you need to do something like this:

ps axf | grep <process name> | grep -v grep | awk '{print "kill -9 " $1}'

It will show you what you're going to kill  and the pipe will show when the time comes to execute:

ps axf | grep <process name> | grep -v grep | awk '{print "kill -9 " $1}' | sh

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