Change the direction of the kill input.  It may be simpler to use pkill.
Maybe just change up the script to take in the input as a var and then pkill
-f "$var"

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of wayne
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:43 PM
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Subject: Simple Script issue..??

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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