Killing parent process only, not both child and parent in bash

Question

I'm trying to kill process by name. It's supposed to kill children processes first then the parent later but I only get parent killed. Help needed please. EDIT: SOLVED

Answer 1

Please try it this way:

PID=$(ps -aef | grep `whoami` | grep $argument | grep -v grep | grep -v $$ | awk '{print $2}'
for x in ${PID[@]}; do
  CPID=$(ps -aef | grep `whoami` | grep $PID | grep -v grep | grep -v $$ | awk '{print $3}'
  for y in ${CPID[@]}; do 
    kill $y
  done
  kill $x
done