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Re: How do I kill a grandchild process from shell program?


On 10/23/06, Jim Seymour <nntp.ff@thentao.com> wrote:

However, if things don't work fine, the background process sticks around
to plague me later.

I'd like to end my main script by killing the background process (if
it's still around), but I'm having a helluva time figuring out HOW.

How about: $ killall <progname>

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