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Lately I've been working with a few java applications and decided I'd really like a more convenient way of killing the processes.  What I wanted was essentially:

jkill <name>

With little help from http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=93334, I decided on the following, which I like quite a bit:

#!/bin/bash
for pid in `ps -Ao pid,command | grep java | grep $1 | sed "s/^[ ]*//" | cut -d\  -f1`;
do 
   ps -p$pid --no-header -f 
   kill -@2 $pid
done