to kill a program in bash, for instance 'mousepad' I use
or
But it only works if we use another bash window;
If it is started from the same bash, that does not work:
In this case, it looks like mousepad hangs and the second command (kill $(pidof mousepad) cannot be executed.
So if I need to write a bash program which starts a program, run some routines and kill that program how do I do?
Hello,
First let me start by saying I have searched the forum and read all the SUID stuff but it is not in the neighborhood I am looking for.
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Dear All:
I use sun OS system and write a code in c as folloing
purpose kill textedit program,but i get some error
please give me a great help Thanks.
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
const char cTestPrag=" kill -9 `ps -ef | grep textedit | grep -v "grep"| awk '{print $2}'| xargs` ";
... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I know that the answer to this is very simple, since I saw somebody do it some time back..but I forgot how.
The problem is, I have multiple instances of the same program running simultaneously and I want to kill them all in a single command.
I know that it can be done using awk '{print... (12 Replies)
Hi all, I have a program and I'm trying to kill it. I'm probably going the longest way around of doing it but now that I've tried to get this to work for a few hours I'd appreciate some help :)
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Dear All,
I have a script which after executing is not stoping when i press ctrl+c.
Now i want to Append the script in such a way when i press ctrl+c while execution of the program it should take it as arguements and should kill the script/running program forcefully.
I know the command to... (1 Reply)
I have a start|stop|restart script for a custom app we have. After it tries to stop our process the correct way, it checks to see if it's gone, if not it tries to kill it, if that doesn't work kill -9.
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I have my Mac OS X program executing a shell script (a script that copies files to a drive). I want to make it so that the shell script automatically kills itself if it finds that the host .app is not running OR kill itself if the drive that it is copying files to has been unmounted. Right now what... (2 Replies)
Hello
i'm trying to make a program which can find a running program on the system and kill it, then repeat that every 5 minutes. The name of the process is given with an argument. I have done this so far, but still not working.
if $1 in $(ps -e) ; then
kill $(pidof $1)
sleep 5m
fi (3 Replies)
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Okay, for reasons related to sourcing a script from another script, I've had to put my main loop into a function, and from there I call other functions. My problem then is exiting from deep within the function call stack.
I used to simply call exit, and that would accomplish what I... (1 Reply)
Hello elite shell/bash specialists,
I have done plenty of STFW and some RTFM, but I cannot find a clear solution to my challenge
Goal:
My goal is to have a script(of any language, preferably shell/bash/anything that can run things on unix), which will kill specific unix terminal windows for... (0 Replies)