#!/bin/ksh
## List all running processes and grep for the “program_name”
## make sure to ignore the grep process that is running (grep -v grep)
## The process id is the second column in the ps -ef statement
pid_var=`ps -ef | grep program_name | grep -v grep | awk ‘{print $2}’`
kill -9 $pid_var
## You might want to use “kill -9 $pid_var”