I see you got this comment already, but still: Make a habit of using pkill instead of stuffing ps output to kill when you can. It's not everywhere, but it's on

I see you got this comment already, but still: Make a habit of using pkill instead of stuffing ps output to kill when you can. It's not everywhere, but it's on Linux/BSD/Solaris. (Avoid killall; that's unportable is a special way.) That's readable and avoids things like filtering out your greps.