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Old 03-27-2007
matrixmadhan matrixmadhan is offline Forum Advisor  
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shrao
I tried this method,still I am getting no process killed. can you justhelp in this
I=1
while [ $I -le 2 ]
do
scriptname &
sleep 10
killall -9 scriptname
echo $I
I=`expr $I + 1`
done
you havent used kill $! to kill the last background process
use that !

instead of
Quote:
killall -9 scriptname
use
Code:
kill $!