csh weirdness (HELP!)

[Rob McMahon]

In article <8000007 at hpopd.HP.COM> bd at hpopd.HP.COM (Bob Desinger) writes:
>> to kill every instance of a.out I get
>> 	`ps | grep a.out | awk '{printf("%d ",$1);}'`: Ambiguous.
>
>Can you work around this by changing the awk program to generate the
>kill commands, then piping the awk output to the shell?  ...

The best workaround is just to use

	\kill `ps | grep a.out | awk '{printf("%d ",$1);}'`

to avoid using the shell builtin.

Rob
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