Re: Killing an app on X
Re: Killing an app on X
- Subject: Re: Killing an app on X
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:43:38 -0700
At 4:51 PM -0600 5/14/02, garbanzito wrote:
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>on forceQuit(appName)
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> set pid to word 1 of (do shell script ("ps -xo,pid,command | grep \"" & appName & "\" | head -n 1"))
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i suggest changing that to "ps -xwwo,pid,command ..." to
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avoid a problem where commands with very long path names are
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truncated, causing the grep to fail.
Yes, I should have thought of that. You are quite correct.
Jon
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