I'd like to kill a process in a bash script and wait for it to die before proceeding. The easiest and most reliable way to identify the process is by the command line arguments passed to it. Thus I ...

Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat. In this post, we take ...

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