The proper way is to record the pid of the child processes that need to be monitored and use that in the kill operation.
Also, liberal use of kill -9 is not good practice and this should be avoided. A simple killl should suffice, perhaps with an additional check that may lead to further action.
Perhaps we should call it: UUoK-9
Also - in situations where there still is a need to get the pid off the process list - note that with
the grep process gets selected and killed too..
You can avoid that by using
or more efficiently (and since this is a child process there is no need for the arguments to ps)
or more efficiently
or if you do not need portability and you system supports it:
Or if you are feeling lucky:
Of course with some pings there is no need for kill since you can just specify how long it should be active, so you could e.g. just use
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Hi friends,
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