Delete output PIDs
 

Hi
lsof +D /root/test/

I want to delete all the PID comes from lsof command output (in below case PID 6356,6986,8184)

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
vi 6356 root 4u REG 8,3 12288 263637 /root/test/.test.txt.swp
vi 6986 root 4u REG 8,3 12288 263793 /root/test/.test1.txt.swp
vi 8184 root 4u REG 8,3 12288 263904 /root/test/test/.test1.txt.swp

Please help me

Hi

I guess below is pretty good

kill -9 `lsof +D /root/test/ -t`

Please share your answers if still there is easiest way

If number of processes to be killed is many then kill command may fail just because command line length overflow.

So this may do the job:

Thanks Veerain

do not use kill -9, but a simple kill (use only -9 if otherwise did not work).
For example in your case kill -9 will obviously kill the process vi, but the file /root/test/.test.txt.swp will not be deleted. Using kill without -9 will allow to delete that file.

What pan64 said is right.

kill -9 used to terminate program immediately.
It does not allow a program to do some cleaning, saving or other tasks a program normally does when exiting.

whereas kill -15 allows a program to do tasks it normally does when exiting gracefully.