From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2009-03-31T23:13:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get list of all processes and the kill by name

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I would just use the system for it.  But if you really want to do it in Rub=
y
you could do something like this:

process_list =3D `ps aux | grep firefox`.split("\n")
process_list.each do |process|
  process =3D process.split(' ')
  command ||=3D []
  command << process.last
  pid ||=3D []
  pid << process[1]
end

Then you can kill stuff based on command to your hearts content.


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Eric Milford <ericmilford@gmail.com> wrote=
:

> I am working on a scraper that blows up if an instance of Firefox is
> already running (launched via Firewatir) so I want to put in code that
> first checks for any existing Firefox processes and issues a kill to
> their PIDs.
>
> I'm really new to Ruby -- how can I best accomplish this?  Thanks.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>


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