xterm

[fsimon]

Hi,

In SGI IRIX6.2 operating system, one can close(kill) and xwsh window with the utility killxwsh. I am trying to close(kill) and xterm window in Linux but I do not know how.

Can you help?

Thx

[robertdaleweir]

Hi fsimon
If you type exit and hit enter it may exit the xterm. In most terminal windows this is the case. Cheers...

[fsimon]

Hi

I use "xterm -hold" option so I can see the problem in the xterm window with the process when the process has a problem and it stops. I am looking for the command line command to kill all those dead xterm windows. In SGI IRIX OS the command to kill the dead xwsh window is killxwsh. I am looking for the Linux equivalence.

Thx

[Kernel_Sanders]

Hi

I use "xterm -hold" option so I can see the problem in the xterm window with the process when the process has a problem and it stops. I am looking for the command line command to kill all those dead xterm windows. In SGI IRIX OS the command to kill the dead xwsh window is killxwsh. I am looking for the Linux equivalence.

Thx

Linux is for the lazy. It only takes a control-d to exit both xterm and console sessions.

But, to answer your question on how to kill processes from a console:

Killing with a SIGTERM signal

# kill pid

Killing with SIGKILL signal

# kill -9 pid

ps to get your user PID's

# ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
11569 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
12528 pts/1 00:00:00 xterm
14307 pts/1 00:00:00 ps

ps aux to get all user PID's

# ps aux
(Too many to copy/paste, so we grep)

# ps aux | grep xterm
root 12528 0.3 0.6 7368 1408 pts/1 S 20:37 0:00 xterm

After far too many years of pounding out "ps aux | grep foobar", we become especially lazy and finally add an alias to .bashrc

alias psg='ps aux | grep -v grep | grep $1'

Now we only to need to type "psg foobar" to do the same thing as "ps aux | grep foobar"

# psg xterm
root 12528 0.3 0.6 7368 1408 pts/1 S 20:37 0:00 xterm

# kill -9 12528

Back home again.

# ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
11569 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
22795 pts/1 00:00:00 ps


To kill multiple processes executing the same file, man killall (Read the doc)

Again, Linux is for the lazy. Use your TAB key to auto-complete the names of commands and files. Your UP/DOWN arrow keys also cycle through previously used commands.

(All assumptions being made that you are using the bash shell)

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[fsimon]

Hi Kernel_Sanders

Thx
"
killall -r xterm" is the equivalence to SGI killxwsh. It kills all the dead xterm windows just as killxwsh kills all the dead xwsh windows.