Question

I’m trying to make an application that checks if this specific application is running, then kill the app after a specified amount of time. I’m planning to get the pid of the app. How can I get the pid of the app?

Thanks

Answer 1

You might try ps -aux | grep foobar for getting the pid, then issuing the kill command against it, alternatively you might want to use pkillfoobar, in both cases foobar being the name of the app you want to terminate.