pgrep my friend or killall -9

On 12/10/08, wayne <waydavis@cox.net> wrote:
> ps -A | grep $1 | cut -c1-5 | grep -o [0123456789]* | kill
>
>
> WILL NOT WORK.
>
> I want to run the above script "whack" like this:   whack  kicker
> which should kill the process "kicker"
>   But it chokes at the "kill" part and I do not know what I'm
> doing.....  and doing wrong  :-)
>
> Anybody?
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