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On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 14:07:39 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > man killall |
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> My reading of the "killall" man page is that it works on command |
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> names. For my script, "pstop palemoon" stops all instances of Pale |
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> Moon. But my script greps the entire line, so "pstop slashdot" will |
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> stop the process... |
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> /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p slasdot |
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> Does "killall" have that ability to stop a process based on any |
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> parameters in the command line? |
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No, but you could look at using pgrep to avoid some of the awkery. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Velilind's Laws of Experimentation: |
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1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. |
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2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. |
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