Hey There,
Tried googling for a solution to this and having no luck as yet.
I'm basically launching a program in the background using a sh script.
firefox http://www.google.ie
(side note: this also launches the terminal, is there a way to prevent
this?)
then i want to have another script that can kill the process.
I presume i am only able to kill the process using the pid using the format
'kill 1234'
I can use the following line to copy the pid to a file
ps -e | grep firefox-bin | cut -d ' ' -f2 > ~/processID
how then can i pass the entry in processID to the kill command.
Or if there is another way to do this i''m all ears.
Ian
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