Re: stopping an application
Re: stopping an application
- Subject: Re: stopping an application
- From: Arjun SM <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:25:05 +0530
Use the 'do shell script' command
do shell script kill -9 PID
That should work.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:08 AM, James W. Walker <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
>
> Bill Janssen wrote:
>>
>> I was afraid of that... Is there an easy way to do that from the
>>> command line given its PID?
>>>
>>
>> Use the osascript command.
>>
>> Form a query using a 'whose' clause to select the process ID. I forget
>> what the exact wording is, or whether to ask Finder or System Events, so
>> you'll have to experiment. To start, open the scripting dictionary of
>> System Events and under its Processes Suite, choose the 'process' class and
>> find its 'unix id' property. That's the thing you need to use in a 'whose'
>> clause.
>>
>> Then tell that application to quit.
>>
>
> This works to quit an app with PID 902:
>
> tell app "System Events" to set x to file of first process whose unix id is
> 902
> tell app (POSIX path of x) to quit
>
> I'm no AppleScript expert, so there's probably a briefer or more elegant
> way to do it.
>
> Hmm, now what did this have to do with Cocoa?
>
>
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