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Force quitting from a script


  • Subject: Force quitting from a script
  • From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:06:02 +0000
  • Thread-topic: Force quitting from a script

I'm doing a script that needs to quit and relaunch an application (usually
Google Chrome, sometime Safari), often when the application is in a bad
state. (not repsonding).

Sometimes the application will respond to a Quit command, but sometimes
after that when I try to activate it I get a connection invalid message.

Other times it won't respond to quit, so when the command times out I do a
shell script:

"killall Google Chrome"

But then I get an error message that there were no processes I owned
matching the command.

So my questions are:

What's the best way to force quit an unresponsive application?

Is there a workaround for the invalid connection error when you quit and
relaunch an application from the same script?

Is there way to find out what the name of a specific process is for the
killall command? (In case I just have the process name wrong. I've tried
numerous variations)

Is there a way to make sure that the process (Google Chrome) is owned by
me when I send the KillAll command?

ES






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