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BW-userx

07-13-2019 09:02 AM

kill process from script

systemD, this script is calling other scripts within it, maybe that is it. but kill pidID is not working on it, either method I use, kill PIDID , of here using xargs.

Code:

$ pgrep fetchwp | xargs kill

$ ps | grep fetchwp

userx    20104  0.0  0.0  7232  3860 pts/0    T    08:51  0:00      \_ /bin/bash /home/userx/bin/fetchwp

userx    9998  0.0  0.0  7232  3648 pts/1    T    08:38  0:00      \_ /bin/bash /home/userx/bin/fetchwp

userx    20488  0.0  0.0  7232  3716 pts/3    T    08:52  0:00      \_ /bin/bash /home/userx/bin/fetchwp

userx    28051  0.0  0.0  6264  2216 pts/3    S+  08:58  0:00      \_ grep --color=auto fetchwp

Turbocapitalist

07-13-2019 09:34 AM

There are several ways to get the PID of the script but, for the way you are trying, use the -f option with pgrep so that it will check the pattern given against the full command with options.

Code:

pgrep -f fetchwp | xargs kill

pkill -f fetchwp

Beware false positives.

BW-userx

07-13-2019 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turbocapitalist (Post 6014640)

There are several ways to get the PID of the script but, for the way you are trying, use the -f option with pgrep so that it will check the pattern given against the full command with options.

Code:

pgrep -f fetchwp | xargs kill

pkill -f fetchwp

Beware false positives.

thanks, testing scripts, gets me lots of PIDs of same script, I'll remember the -f , as I've already rebooted.

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