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.