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Bash functions to list and kill or send signals to process trees

Posted 03-31-2012 at 11:54 PM by konsolebox
Updated 05-27-2018 at 03:11 PM by konsolebox

These functions can be used in scripts or interactive shells to manipulate process trees. At least bash version 3.0 is needed. May also work with some earlier versions.

kill_tree - Creates a list of processes based from a parent process ID first then sends the signal to all of them synchronously.

kill_tree_2 - Same as killtree but it doesn't create a list first. It immediately kills processes as it goes through every level.

kill_tree_3 - This version...

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Getting Absolute Paths of UNIX Directories and Filenames in Shell Scripts

Posted 07-08-2011 at 03:05 AM by konsolebox
Updated 05-27-2018 at 03:20 PM by konsolebox

Tags bash, ksh, script, shell, zsh

This post is a compilation of the function getabspath() for different shells that can be used to get the absolute form of a path. The function accepts an argument path then returns the absolute form of it to the variable $__.

Bash

Code:

function getabspath {
	local t=() i=0 IFS=/

	case $1 in
	/*)
		__=${1#/}
		;;
	*)
		__=${PWD#/}/$1
		;;
	esac

	case $- in
	*f*)
		set -- $__

...

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Shell Script Loader's First Stable Versions

Posted 04-09-2011 at 04:09 AM by konsolebox
Updated 07-08-2011 at 02:50 AM by konsolebox

After almost 2 years of trying to perfect and refine this software, it's now finally reached the first presentable and stable form. Maybe it's already the final form I'm not sure. I'm glad that I was able to finish it.

versions released: 0.1 (base) and 0X.1 (extended)

homepage: http://loader.sourceforge.net/
project's summary page in sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/loader

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