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Saeed
Saeed

Reputation: 4125

How to kill all Running jobs and then make Stopped jobs being Running?

I've curious about how can I kill all Running jobs at first, and then change all Stopped jobs to Running status in Linux. I have googled a lot but I did not found anything. I just reached a command kill $(jobs -ps) that kills all jobs (whether running or stopped). This is my jobs output:

[1]  92231 Running                 tail -f myfile &
[2]  92232 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[3]  92234 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[4]  92236 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[5]  92237 Running                 tail -f myfile &
[6]  92238 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[7]  92239 Running                 tail -f myfile &
[8]  92240 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[9]  92241 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[10]  92243 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[11]  92244 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[12]  92245 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[13]  92246 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[14]  92247 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[15]  92248 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[16]  92249 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[17]  92250 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[18]  92251 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[19]  92252 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[20]  92253 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[21]  92255 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[22]  92256 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[23]  92258 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[24]  92259 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[25]  92260 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[26]  92261 Running                 tail -f myfile &
[27]  92262 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[28]  92263 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[29]  92264 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[30]  92267 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[31]  92268 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[32]  92269 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[33]  92270 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[34]  92271 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[35]- 92272 Stopped                 tail -f myfile
[36]+ 92273 Stopped                 tail -f myfile

At first, I want to kill all Running processes, and then I want to make the other Stopped ones being Running.

How may I reach this output? I've been thinking about for loop but I'm not sure if I can.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 881

Answers (1)

kaylum
kaylum

Reputation: 14046

First some useful jobs options from the bash manual:

-p List only the process ID of the job’s process group leader.

-r Display only running jobs.

-s Display only stopped jobs.

So to kill all running jobs we can do:

kill $(jobs -p -r)

And to restart all stopped jobs:

kill -SIGCONT $(jobs -p -s)

Upvotes: 1

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