On Saturday, February 6, 2021 6:07:39 A.M. AEDT Walter Dnes 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... > > /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p slasdot > > Does "killall" have that ability to stop a process based on any > parameters in the command line?
Someone else mentioned pgrep. It has an associated pkill command as well. Both appear to have a "-f" option to also search on the full command line. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
