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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Want to terminate command execution when string found in the command output Post 302713053 by alister on Wednesday 10th of October 2012 08:24:36 AM
Old 10-10-2012
If you want a command to terminate after some output has been detected ...

If the command will continue to generate output after the match is found, and if the wait time (could be a fraction of a second, could be weeks) until the command next attempts to write data to a pipe is acceptable, then a simple filter (awk, sed, etc...), which exits immediately after finding the match, could be sufficient. When the command next attempts to write to the pipe, since the filter that was on the other end is now gone, it will be sent a SIGPIPE (default response to this signal is program termination).

If the command to be killed does not write to the pipe regularly, then you need to send it a signal yourself when the match is detected. For this, you need to know the PID of that command.

Regards,
Alister
 

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