[Ilugc] Terminate a running process
- From: l.mohanphy@xxxxxxxxx (Mohan L)
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:32:04 +0530
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Jacob G Podipara <podianu at gmail.com>wrote:
Dear Knights,
May seem to be a silly question. I would like to terminate a process like
say Herrie, Transmission
after an hour say. Can one do that while invoking the utility or is cron
necassary. The idea is
that I listen to quiet music while sleeping off.
Regards
Podi
PS. By the way can one post on Twitter from the CLI.
If you want to run a cron job to kill :
$ ps aux | grep Herrie
mohan 3992 99.9 0.0 1744 240 pts/0 R 11:55 11:58 Herrie
mohan 4094 0.0 0.0 3780 780 pts/1 S+ 12:07 0:00 grep
--color=auto Herrie
Here is the shell script:
$ cat kill_process1.sh
#!/usr/bin/env sh
process_name="Herrie"
pid=$(ps aux | grep $process_name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
if [ ! -z "$pid" ]; then
kill -9 $pid
exit 0
fi
$ ./kill_process1.sh
Thanks
Mohan L
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