Re: send control-C to a process?

Thanks Thierry - "kill " does indeed give me the desired outcome - the audio duration is now displayed in Finder's "Get Info" window (and is also discovered & displayed by other tools like afinfo and mediainfo). I really appreciate your help! Phil Davis On 12/26/16 11:59 PM, Thierry Douez

Re: send control-C to a process?

Hi Phil, Instead of closing your process, try to send a SIGINT or SIGQUIT signal to the child process, eg: kill kill -9 This is just out of my head... HTH Disclaimer: I know nothing about Sox. and happy holidays too, Thierry 2016-12-27 7:50 GMT+01:00 Phil Davis : >

send control-C to a process?

On a Mac I want to 'type' control-C to a process I opened for update. (I'm using SoX to record some spoken audio, and I want to tell it to end.) How do I do it? I found I can just close the process and the audio is preserved in the output file, but then Finder seems to have no idea what the