On Wednesday 26 February 2003 00:44, Peter Howell wrote:
> It appears that rec does not buffer the sound, but instead writes it
> directly to the file.
OK, i should have mentioned that i dont use the program myself.
> It's inelegant, but I suppose I could kill the application after a
> specified delay. There are two problems with implementing that for me.
> Firstly, I don't think I could do that in perl, which I'm most familiar
> with because there doesn't appear to be an easy way to spawn a process
> and continue running the scipt. Secondly, I don't know how to run a
> process and get it's process id, which I'd need to kill it.
>
> Ok, just did a little rtfm. I guess I could use ps and extract the id.
> Now I guess I'd better learn some bash scripting
Do both at once, get pid(s) of rec and kill it/them.
kill `ps aux | grep rec | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
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