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answer to this.... escape $.  "\$1"

ssh machine "ps ax|grep namd|grep -v grep| awk '{print(\$1)}'|xargs
kill"

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:00 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:52 -0400, Dow_Hurst wrote:
> > What is the proper way to get this command to work:
> > 
> > ssh machine "ps ax|grep namd|grep -v grep| awk '{print($1)}'|xargs kill"
> 
> Try this (no double quotes):
>  ssh machine ps ax|grep namd|grep -v grep| awk '{print($1)}'|xargs kill
> 
> 
> -Jim P.
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