Kill by name?

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From: Carl B Jabido
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 02:08

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Hi, I'm looking for a program which would let you kill a process by
name, and not by PID.  I think I remember something like this.  Example:
if a program test.exe was running, then typing "kill test" would kill
it.  I know of programs which do it by PID, but I need something that
does it by name, because I want to use it in a REXX script which would
not have input.  I want it to kill the same program every time, and
because the PID changes, I can't do it with the kill PID procedures.
If anyone knows anything about this, please email info to me!  Thanks!

Better yet, if anyone knows how to do this in REXX, ie, a builtin REXX
procedure or function, that would be even better!

Thanks again for any pointers, tips, info, etc.

Carl Jabido
cj00@andrew.cmu.edu

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Date: Thu,  5 Nov 1992 21:08:51 -0500 
From: Carl B Jabido <cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Kill by name?
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