On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:07 PM Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 06:55:12AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:45 AM Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > So far, so good, but running "ps -ef | grep whatever" and then > > > typing the kill -SIGSTOP/SIGCONT command on the correct pid is grunt > > > work, subject to typos. > > > > man killall > > My reading of the "killall" man page is that it works on command > names. For my script, "pstop palemoon" stops all instances of Pale > Moon. But my script greps the entire line, so "pstop slashdot" will > stop the process...
Yeah, that is fair enough. If you want to use other elements of the command line/etc then you'd need to do something more along the lines of your script. Just wanted to make people aware. -- Rich
