Killing an app on X
Killing an app on X
- Subject: Killing an app on X
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:26:39 -0700
One of the boys here asked me how to kill an app with AppleScript on X. I thought others might like to see how.
on forceQuit(appName)
set pid to word 1 of (do shell script ("ps -xo,pid,command | grep \"" & appName & "\" | head -n 1"))
do shell script ("kill -9 " & pid)
end forceQuit
forceQuit("Clock")
That's all there is to it. Use the PS (processes) command to get the PID (process ID) and then use the KILL command to stop it, with extreme prejudice (-9).
Unix, icky but functional.
Jon
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