Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:25:36 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to kill a while loop... Message-ID: <20030128222536.GG17299@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030128140811.O54977-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> References: <20030128140811.O54977-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 28), Josh Brooks said:
>
> Hi,
>
> I ran a command like:
>
> while `some command` ; do something ; done &
>
> and I missed the PID output when I backgrounded it.
>
> Now I want to kill this while process, but I cannot find it anymore.
>
> I tried to ps auxw | grep while, and grep do and so on, but I cannot find
> the process to kill it.
Two ways:
1 - Type in "jobs -l", which will list all the backgrounded jobs your
shell knows about and their pids. Then run "kill nn", where nn is
the process id, which is the second number. The first is the job
number, which will usually be 1.
2 - If you exited your shell or disowned the job, it won't show up in
'jobs'. Run "ps axl | egrep 'mycommand|PID'", and kill the
command's parent process (PPID column).
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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