Here's a UNIX one-liner I wrote a while ago that uses awk, sed and grep for a real-life need: UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process: http://jugad2.b

Here's a UNIX one-liner I wrote a while ago that uses awk, sed and grep for a real-life need: UNIX one-liner to kill a hanging Firefox process: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-hanging-firefox.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2008/09/unix-one-liner-to-kill-han... The comments on that post are also of interest.