杀死名称早于一天的进程

Question

I have a question much related to the problem. Here's my code:

ps -eo pid,etime,cmd|grep ${1}|grep -v grep|awk '{if ($2>="23:59:59") print $1}'|xargs kill -9

I am trying to kill all processes with specific name which etime is more than a day. It worked well that way until i was told that the script cannot kill processes that represent date in a format like: 1-23:00:00.

Changing variable $2 in awk procedure to 1-00:00:00 kills all processes with given name. Can you give me a hint how to format etime properly?

Answer 1

instead of changing the awk script, I suggest changing ps option etime into etimes .

With etimes you got the lifetime in seconds . you are free to choose to kill or not kill if the value > or < a certain value. even, $2>=somevalue1 && $2<= somevalue2