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Mastering Bash

You're reading from   Mastering Bash A Step-by-Step Guide to working with Bash Programming and Shell Scripting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784396879
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giorgio Zarrelli Giorgio Zarrelli
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Preface 1. Let's Start Programming 2. Operators FREE CHAPTER 3. Testing 4. Quoting and Escaping 5. Menus, Arrays, and Functions 6. Iterations 7. Plug into the Real World 8. We Want to Chat 9. Subshells, Signals, and Job Controls 10. Lets Make a Process Chat 11. Living as a Daemon 12. Remote Connections over SSH 13. Its Time for a Timer 14. Time for Safety

Job controls

So, we have the job ID, process ID, foreground, and background processes, but how do we control these jobs? We have a bunch of commands available, let's have a look at how to use them:

  • kill: We can pass the job ID to this command, which will send the SIGTERM signal to all the processes belonging to the job itself:
zarrelli:~$ sleep 100 &
[1] 9909
zarrelli:~$ kill %1
zarrelli:~$
[1]+ Terminated sleep 100

You can also pass to kill a specific signal to send to the process. For instance, kill -15 will nicely terminate a process with a SIGTERM signal, and if it refuses to die, kill -9 will send a SIGKILL, which will instantly terminate a process.
Which signals can we send to a process? Either
kill -l or cat /usr/include/asm-generic/signal.h will give us a list of all the signals supported.

  • killall: If we know what is the name of the process, the easiest way to...
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