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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Killing specific process Post 302142299 by benefactr on Thursday 25th of October 2007 10:13:53 AM
Old 10-25-2007
I've modified the script in a attempt to see if a process was killed or not, should be simple I thought. I set the flag to N at the beginning, and if in the if matches statement is true I set the flag to Y. After it's done with the while loop the match flag is N again. Why is that MATCH flag not global inside the while loop? something is eluding me here and I'm not sure what.

Code:
PROGRAM=$1
LOGFILE=/usr/local/logs/processkill.log
MATCH="N"
matches()
{
        if test "$1" = "$PROGRAM"
        then
                return 0
        fi

        return 1;
}

ps -e | while read PID TTY TIME CMD
do
        if matches $CMD
        then
          echo "Killing PID $PID for $CMD"
          MATCH="Y"
        fi
done
echo "$MATCH"

 

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FC-MATCH(1)															       FC-MATCH(1)

NAME
fc-match - match available fonts SYNOPSIS
fc-match [ -svV? ] [ --sort ] [ --verbose ] [ --version ] [ --help ] [ font-pattern ] DESCRIPTION
fc-match matches font-pattern (empty pattern by default) using the normal fontconfig matching rules to find the best font available. If --sort is given, the sorted list of best matching fonts is displayed. With --verbose, the whole font pattern for each match is printed, otherwise only the file, family and style are printed.. OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. -v --verbose Print whole font pattern for each match. -? --help Show summary of options. -V --version Show version of the program and exit. -s --sort Displays sorted list of best matching fonts. font-pattern Displays fonts matching font-pattern (uses empty pattern by default). SEE ALSO
fc-list (1). The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/packages/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html. AUTHOR
This manual page was updated by Patrick Lam <plam@csail.mit.edu>. 16 October 2006 FC-MATCH(1)
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