Kill a running script

Fixit7 · 03-15-2016, 08:19 PM

I know about killing a process using the PID.

I am looking for a way to search for the bash process that is running, and kill it.

This is an example of what I want to kill.

while sleep 5; do (date=`date` && gxmessage -timeout 1 $date &) ; done

frankbell · 03-15-2016, 08:29 PM

If the bash process is a script, ps ought to list it, even if it's sleeping.

I just tested that with a little script that I run to change my background every 30 minutes.

Fixit7 · 03-15-2016, 08:40 PM

I want to kill it without using ps.

Fixit7 · 03-16-2016, 04:32 PM

This is supposed to exit when Ctrl C is hit, but it does not.

What is wrong ?

Code:

while sleep 5; do (date=`date` && gxmessage -timeout 1 $date &) ; done 

trap 'echo you hit Ctrl-C/Ctrl-\, now exiting..; exit' SIGINT SIGQUIT