Bash script - command line to terminate session

[katiealice]

I'm working on my final project (due tomorrow) and I have ONE LINE I haven't been able to figure out.

We have to write a script that gives the user a menu with options to list current directory, show path of current directory, see who's logged on, etc. Easy stuff. But the last menu option is "Exit from UNIX" and I've been going through my textbooks and googling and I can't figure out how to completely exit from within the script. "Exit" just gets me out of the script and back to the command prompt. I tried inserting an EOF but that did nothing.

Please help!

Thanks,
Katie

[ADFC]

I think exit should work (in lowercase letters).

Or maybe something like kill could be used.

Third option: Wait for some more replies...

[Rubberman]

You could try the logout command. It's a shell command, however; it might not work for you. Effectively, it terminates a login shell, so if your menu is inside a shell script, it might work.

[Rubberman]

You could try the logout command. It's a shell command, however; it might not work for you. Effectively, it terminates a login shell, so if your menu is inside a shell script, it might work.

I just tried it in a KDE tty on my CentOS system, and got the error

bash: logout: not login shell: use `exit'

so I expect you are sol in this respect.

[katiealice]

Kill worked! Thanks ADFC!

I used:

pid=$(ps x | grep 'Ss' | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
pid2=$(echo $pid | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
kill -9 $pid2

Thank you thank you thank you.

Katie