xterm

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

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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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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Hi Kernel_Sanders

Thx
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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.