On May 12, 2006, at 6:01 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
How do I kill a command run from the shell tool? If I just kill the shell's PID, that doesn't seem to be the same PID as the PID of the command that I'm running from the shell, so the command just runs to completion.
Right. When you issue a command in a shell, you're starting a new process with its own PID.
Is there some unix command to get the PID of the command that you just run?
Probably. top gives you a list of all processes. I expect that you could do something like get the PID of the shell process, then get the PIDs of its child processes.
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