find and kill by brett terpstra

findandkill.bash

# find and kill by brett terpstra (saving repetitive ps aux + kill -9 )
fp () { #find and list processes matching a case-insensitive partial-match string
  ps Ao pid,comm|awk '{match($0,/[^\/]+$/); print substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH)": "$1}'|grep -i $1|grep -v grep
}

fk () { # build menu to kill process
  IFS=$'\n'
  PS3='Kill which process? '
  select OPT in $(fp $1) "Cancel"; do
    if [ $OPT != "Cancel" ]; then
      kill $(echo $OPT|awk '{print $NF}')
    fi
  break
  done
  unset IFS
}