How to kill a process with 'kill' combined with 'grep'

Question

I\'d like to kill a process/script with a simple command using. At the moment I do the following

ps -ef | grep myscriptname
kill 123456

But

Answer 1

An alternative is piping to the xargs command:

ps -ef | grep myscriptname | xargs kill

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/xargs.1.html