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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A script that kills previous instances of itself upon running not killing child processes Post 302687559 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 16th of August 2012 08:37:26 PM
Old 08-16-2012
In you example above the kill command should have been:

Code:
kill -- -13507

Notice how I have placed a hyphen in front of the process ID
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