Re: kill pidof question
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 03:37:01PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:27:17 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
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> > I frequently have to kill iceape - it locks up on some images.
> >
> > Of course the command pidof iceape-bin will return the pid to standard
> > output and I can then use this information to kill the program.
> > Certainly it must be possible to combine these steps into a single
> > command line but my efforts to do so have all failed. Would some pro at
> > scripting please set me straight?
>
> kill `pidof iceape-bin`
>
>
Thanks, this works. I had not known the use of backward single quotes.
I'll read up on them.
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