Kill Process Tree
From Shrubbery
- How to kill a process tree.
Here's a shell function that kills a tree of processes, based on the parent process id:
function killProcTree()
{
local parentid=$1
for child in $(ps axo pid,ppid | awk "{ if ( \$2 == $parentid ) { print \$1 }}")
do
echo "Killing child process $child because parent id is $parentid"
kill $child
KILLEXITCODE=$?
if [ $KILLEXITCODE -ne 0 ]; then
echo "PID $child not running"
else
echo "stopped PID $child "
fi
done
kill -KILL $parentid 2>/dev/null
KILLEXITCODE=$?
if [ $KILLEXITCODE -ne 0 ]; then
echo "PID $parentid not running"
else
echo "stopped PID $parentid"
fi
}
This is often useful for killing a JBoss process that was started with the run.sh script.
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