Hi

isn't correct inorder to kill the process of say emacs
you type
#kill $(pidof emacs)

but this is not working. is there anyother way
using debian testing 2.6.15

thanks

You don't need the $

$ kill (pidof emacs)

If that doesn't work ... $ kill -9 (pidof emacs)

on the #top output, I have a pid I need to kill
the steps below are not killing it

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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22279 ekdya 25 0 21472 16m 2088 R 91.0 1.7 18:44.54 lisp.run

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<k>
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PID to kill: 22279 <RET>
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22279 ekdya 25 0 21208 16m 2088 R 85.0 1.7 19:14.51 lisp.run
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Kill PID 22279 with signal [15]: <RET>
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22279 ekdya 25 0 21208 16m 2088 R 85.0 1.7 19:14.51 lisp.run
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22279 ekdya 25 0 20332 15m 2088 R 92.9 1.6 20:51.49 lisp.run
************************************************

You don't need the $
$ kill (pidof emacs)
In Bash, if you want to supply the outcome of the subshell commands () to kill, you do need the dollar sign.
Kill+pidof could be combined as "pkill -9 -f lisp.run".