Applescript/Terminal: Get PIDs of processes starting with...

Question

Hello,
Is there a way to return all the PIDs of processes starting with "Myapp_action_download" in a neat array in Applescript, so I can kill them using Terminal?
Something like this:
set openapps to {}
set openapps to (do shell script "the shell script which I don't know")
--This script gets all the PIDs of processes starting with "Myapp_action_download", and returns them in a neat array
set appcount to 0
repeat (count of items of openapps)
set appcount to appcount + 1
do shell script ("kill -9 " & (item appcount of openapps) as text)
end repeat
Kind regards,
Isaiah

Answer 1

try
tell application "System Events"
          set procesList to the name of every process whose name contains "Myapp_action_download"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
          set {procesList, pidList} to the {name, unix id} of (every process whose name contains "Myapp_action_download")
end tell
You'll have two lists one with the process name and one with the pid's. They will be in a one-to-one relationship. That is the first entry in the processList will correspond to the first entry in the pidList.
However if the apps aren't hung or in a weird state you should be able to just tell the process to quit without resorting to killing them.
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano