Questions tagged [pkill]
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How to stop a script within another script
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04, using a terminal emulator.
I have two scripts: a.sh and b.sh.
a.sh calls b.sh.
a.sh
echo "a is running"
sleep 5s
bash b.sh
sleep 5s
echo "a is still running"
b.sh
echo "...
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How to kill all processes owned by `user` on Centos 7? [duplicate]
I read in an online flash card that the command is:
pkill -u bob $(pgrep -u bob)
However, I think this is wrong. I think it's saying:
Kill all the processed owned by bob, and 4572\n4600
Because:
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MacOS: su pkill -9 “process_name” = sorry
How to use pkill as su on a Mac?
When I run su pkill -9 "RFBEventHelperd" in the terminal I get su: Sorry (but works as sudo). I am looking for a way to kill this process from inside a script that ...
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Process is running [closed]
I have run the following command as root today morning sh /home/suio/LoadSnortSingature.sh > /home/suio/logs.txt 2>&1 after some time the session of the terminal closed and I have relogged in ...
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What is the `-KILL` option in `pkill` command
I have found a way to logout any user by using the command line. By executing the command pkill -KILL -u <username>, I can now log myself out from the session I have entered.
My question is ...
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Tagging a process so I can kill it later easily by identifying
I need to tag a generic process (I don't really control the command being run).
Could I do something like this:
run_special_cmd(){
"$@" -- --very-special-command
}
run_special_cmd sleep 5000 &...
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pkill -P variable not working when running .sh under cron
I have a very simple .sh script to kill a process. The processes saves its PID to pid2.txt.
pkill -e -P $(cat pid2.txt)
exit
When I run this as sudo ./myscript.sh from the command line it works fine....
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Using `pgrep` to emulate `ps -ef` for use in a `for i in` loop
Ubuntu 16.04
I am used to using this command line to kill any process match said COMMAND
for i in $(ps -ef | grep COMMAND | awk '{ print $2 }'); do kill -9 "$i" &>/dev/null;done
shellcheck ...
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How to force a PID to terminate? [duplicate]
Yes, I've tried all the basic kill, pkill, etc. methods that come up with a Google search.
Sometimes it works, other times it seems something is preventing the process from terminating.
There is no ...
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pkill does not work on Ubuntu 16.04
I list all the processes in the system using ps -aux
and I found this java process:
10253 2.1 10.1 3259172 398864 pts/0 Tl 06:58 0:09 java -jar /opt/can-peris/core-price-update/menu-core-...
