On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Jacob G Podipara <podi...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Knights,
>  May seem to be a silly question. I would like to terminate a process like
> say Herrie, Transmission
>  after an hour say. Can one do that while invoking the utility or is cron
> necassary. The idea is
>  that I listen to quiet music while sleeping off.
>   Regards
>    Podi
> PS. By the way can one post on Twitter from the CLI.
>

If you want to run a cron job to kill :

$ ps aux | grep Herrie
mohan     3992 99.9  0.0   1744   240 pts/0    R    11:55  11:58 Herrie
mohan     4094  0.0  0.0   3780   780 pts/1    S+   12:07   0:00 grep
--color=auto Herrie

Here is the shell script:

$ cat kill_process1.sh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

process_name="Herrie"
pid=$(ps aux | grep $process_name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
if [ ! -z "$pid" ]; then
    kill -9 $pid
    exit 0
fi

$ ./kill_process1.sh

Thanks
Mohan L

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