Shell script to kill all background jobs

Hello, I've come up with a command which will list all the background processes running in my current shell and am trying to run it from a shell script but am experiencing some difficulty. The script looks as follows:

Code:

#! /bin/sh                                                                      
jobs -l | grep -o '[0-9]* ' | xargs -E eofstr kill -9

If I run this line directly in my terminal it works fine but if I try to execute from the script it doesn't seem to do anything.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

im not sure what you mean by 'create an alias'. And how could I use this to solve the problem. Thanks for responding!

 

Yep, awesome. Works great thanks guys.