Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat. In this post, we take ...

In this week’s column, we’re going to take a look at several commands that might save you some time. Each of these commands is easy to use and easy to remember, but just far enough off the beaten ...

I'd like to kill a process in a bash script and wait for it to die before proceeding. The easiest and most reliable way to identify the process is by the command line arguments passed to it. Thus I ...