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Created October 27, 2009 19:33
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Killing a process by name
# really make sure searchd has been killed before rebuilding search index
# replace `searchd` with the process name you want to kill
ps ux | awk '/searchd/ && !/awk/ Kill {print $2}' | xargs kill -9
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