OT - shell script to kill a process

[chris bohnert]

"killall ProcessName" should do what you want

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cb

On 7/9/07, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My Unix scripting knowledge leaves a bit to be desired, so I thought
> I'd ask here for some help.
>
> I have a Vise installer for OS X that needs to check for and kill our
> own process if it's running. The installer will be authenticated when
> running. I need a shell script that I can execute from within the
> installer that will determine, by name, if a given process is
> running, and then kill it dead if so. Can someone help?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
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