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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Kill specific terminal using shell/bash Post 302937414 by kamil-mech on Thursday 5th of March 2015 12:36:18 PM
Old 03-05-2015
Kill specific terminal using shell/bash
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 me. Killing just the process itself does not satisfy my case requirements and nor does killing terminal on process end. Also running everything in one terminal is not the case.

Background:
I am working on a massive scale db-plugin tester. It spawns 2 new terminals per each db - one for db and one for app(app needs db specific settings) it's tested against. There is 35 dbs in the collection and therefore I am in danger of having 70 terminals hanging on my screen. The spawned terminals cannot automatically shutdown on process end - in case an error occurs and debugging will need to take place(those terminals contain vital logs). After my tester is done with one db and everything ends happily, it should proceed to the next db. It would be very useful if it could dispose of all the terminals that are no longer needed when it proceeds to the next db. In fact, I believe it is vital to be able to do it.

Details:
The command I use to spawn each new process looks like this:
Code:
gnome-terminal -x bash -c "sh app.sh; exec $SHELL"

Note there is plenty of shell commands before and after each spawn, i.e. init and cleanup operations

Any sort of clues is much appreciated. Also feel free to suggest any change in my design/code that could make my goal more realistic.

Thank you

@Update

Problem Solved!

Okay I finally have it figured out.

To all those with the same problem, look at
Code:
gnome-terminal --disable-factory

It spawns killable gnome-terminals with unique PIDs
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSX

platform::shell

platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
       packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
	      This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

       operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture

platform::shell 						       1.1.4							platform::shell(n)
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