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Old 06-21-2011
CPU & Memory shell script to kill process with respect to terminal

Hi,

I've a script which kills all process, but i need a script shell script(sh), where it'll kill process on that particular terminal. below is example
Code:
TY=`tty`

for P in $TY 
        do
        `kill -9 $P 2>/dev/null`;
        done
        echo "test process killed"
        break
        fi
done

when i run this, i'm getting ERROR: TTY not found. this is an shell script which is running in background, and perl is calling this shell script.
say i want to kill process name sh, of that particular terminal. how to do this.

regards,
asak

Last edited by Franklin52; 06-21-2011 at 12:09 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
# 2  
Old 06-21-2011
What system are you on?
ps(1) is most likely the tool you could use to accomplish this.

On my system (bash on linux)
Code:
ps a

returns processes and associated terminals (TTY, second column)

From the output of 'ps' you can pull just the processes tied to particular tty.
# 3  
Old 06-21-2011
If you have it: pkill -t tty

Regards,
Alister
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# 4  
Old 06-22-2011
Thanks alister,

all process with respect to particular terminal go killed...

Thanks once again.

Regads
asak
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