On 13 Oct 2006, at 17:22, j michaelson wrote:
> i'm a big fan of ogg123 and i often leave it running in the background
> while i'm working or gaming. sometimes i want to skip a track and i
> have to switch to the terminal where it's running and hit ctrl-c to do
> so. i've found that using kill -2 can get the same effect as hitting
> ctrl-c so i'm trying to pipe some commands together to automate this
> for me.
>> i've worked out most of the steps for this. i need to...
> 1 - use top to show all the processes running on my pc
> 2 - use grep to find the line for ogg123
> 3 - somehow isolate the process id from the other information on
> the line
> 4 - use xargs to feed this to kill -2
>> the final command should look something like....
>> top -n 1 | grep ogg123 | ?????? | xargs kill -2
>> can anyone help me with the third step?
Yes, but don't bother - replace all this with
killall -s 2 ogg123
killall is a program which does just what you're trying to do, and
should be available on anything resembling a current Linux
distribution. man killall is your friend.
Niall
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