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How can I kill and wait for background processes to finish in a shell script when I Ctrl+C it?
I'm trying to set up a shell script so that it runs background processes, and when I Ctrlc the shell script, it kills the children, then exits.
The best that I've managed to come up with is this. It ...
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Why doesn't an orphan process receive signals?
I have two shell scripts: launch_job.sh and sub_job.sh.
If launch_job.sh uses the following method to run sub_job.sh:
nohup sub_job.sh &
sub_job.sh becomes an orphan, i.e. with PPID 1.
I ...
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How to suspend and resume proccesses like bash does
this question is a follow-up to: How to suspend and resume proccesses
I have started firefox from a bash session in gnome-terminal.
The proccess tree looks like this:
$ ps -e -o pid,ppid,cmd -H
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