Re: stopping a problematic process.

[John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>]

peter writes:
> Suppose 
>  strace LooseCannon 
> produces 100 k lines of output but the user is primarily 
> interested to see the first 1 k lines.  
>  strace LooseCannon | head --lines=1000
> might work but waste time and resources.  How can the 
> process be stopped without losing the strace output and 
> before excessive waste?

strace LooseCannon  2>&1 | ( head -n1000 ; killall LooseCannon )

Note that this will leave the terminal in whatever state LooseCannon put
it in.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA