xargs to kill

 ps -ef | grep XXXX   | grep -v root | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
		(replace XXXX with search string to kill...)



 ps -ef | grep user | grep -v root | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

 >--> ps -ef | grep user
 root  9758 24722  0 11:36:17 pts/10   0:00 grep user
 user  9755  9705  0 11:36:09 pts/7    0:00 vi test
 user  9705 24365  0 11:34:20 pts/7    0:00 -ksh
 user  9756  9705  0 11:36:13 pts/7    0:00 vi test2

 >--> ps -ef | grep user | grep -v root
 user  9755  9705  0 11:36:09 pts/7    0:00 vi test
 user  9705 24365  0 11:34:20 pts/7    0:00 -ksh
 user  9756  9705  0 11:36:13 pts/7    0:00 vi test2

>--> ps -ef | grep user | grep -v root | awk '{print $2}'
9755
9705
9756


why kill processes? 
>--> w
10:28am  up 171 day(s),  2:27,  7 users,  load average: 4984.87, 4406.36, 3186.89
 10:37am  up 171 day(s),  2:36,  8 users,  load average: 4880.55, 4189.25, 3535.02
User     tty           login@  idle   JCPU   PCPU  what

...because sometimes user code can run amok... a user process kept spawning
off processes that resulted in this system load!

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