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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting grab PID of a process and kill it in a script Post 302318902 by jim mcnamara on Friday 22nd of May 2009 03:44:45 PM
Old 05-22-2009
maybe:
Code:
who
echo "\r"
echo 'Enter the terminal ID of the user in use: '
echo "\r" 
read TERM_ID
ps -t $TERM_ID | grep sh | read PID junk
kill -9 $PID

 

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cli_set_process_title - Sets the process title

SYNOPSIS
bool cli_set_process_title (string $title) DESCRIPTION
Sets the process title visible in tools such as top and ps. This function is available only in CLI mode. PARAMETERS
o $title - The new title. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS An E_WARNING will be generated if the operating system is unsupported. EXAMPLES
Example #1 cli_set_process_title(3) example <?php $title = "My Amazing PHP Script"; $pid = getmypid(); // you can use this to see your process title in ps if (!cli_set_process_title($title)) { echo "Unable to set process title for PID $pid... "; exit(1); } else { echo "The process title '$title' for PID $pid has been set for your process! "; sleep(5); } ?> SEE ALSO
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