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Old 09-29-2014, 03:42 PM   #1
julianvb
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Terminating YouTube html video started with firefox in bash script


2014-09-28

I would like to know how to terminate a short YouTube html video launched with firefox as in the following case.

firefox cat.html &
sleep 50

Any help will be much appreciated.

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Old 09-29-2014, 03:54 PM   #2
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I have no idea what you were trying to do, but since you appear to have started the firefox instance as a background process, it should show up if you type 'jobs', then you can kill it with the job number...

Code:
jobs
[X] Running firefox cat.html&

... then take the number shown and type...

kill %X
 
  


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