Is there any way to set the process name of a shell script? This is needed for killing this script with the killall
command.
Here's a way to do it, it is a hack/workaround but it works pretty good. Feel free to tweak it to your needs, it certainly needs some checks on the symbolic link creation or using a tmp folder to avoid possible race conditions (if they are problematic in your case).
wrapper
#!/bin/bash
script="./dummy"
newname="./killme"
rm -iv "$newname"
ln -s "$script" "$newname"
exec "$newname" "$@"
dummy
#!/bin/bash
echo "I am $0"
echo "my params: $@"
ps aux | grep bash
echo "sleeping 10s... Kill me!"
sleep 10
Test it using:
chmod +x dummy wrapper
./wrapper some params
In another terminal, kill it using:
killall killme
Make sure you can write in your current folder (current working directory).
If your current command is:
/path/to/file -q --params somefile1 somefile2
Set the script variable in wrapper to /path/to/file (instead of ./dummy) and call wrapper like this:
./wrapper -q --params somefile1 somefile2