How to kill all processes matching a name?

Question

Say I want to kill every process containing the word amarok. I can print out the commands I want to execute. But how do I actually make the shell execute them. ie.

Answer 1

You can also evaluate your output as a sub-process, by surrounding everything with back ticks or with putting it inside $():

`ps aux | grep -ie amarok | awk '{print "kill -9 " $2}'`

 $(ps aux | grep -ie amarok | awk '{print "kill -9 " $2}')