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Reputation: 1319

Start a process with a name

Basically I want to dynamically start some processes which may create their own children processes, also I want to kill a certain group of processes I just created whenever I want. One way I could think of is to start processes with a name(to distinguish as a group), then use pkill to kill them by the name. The question is how to start a process with a name so that I can use pkill to kill them by the name? I am open to other solutions as well.

Upvotes: 24

Views: 45853

Answers (1)

user2829759
user2829759

Reputation: 3512

How can I start a process with a different name?

bash -c "exec -a <MyProcessName> <Command>"

Then you can kill the process with:

pkill -f MyProcessName

Upvotes: 23

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