Use the 'do shell script' command do shell script kill -9 PID That should work.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:08 AM, James W. Walker <o...@jwwalker.com> wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Greg Guerin wrote: > > Bill Janssen wrote: >> >> I was afraid of that... Is there an easy way to do that from the >>> command line given its PID? >>> >> >> Use the osascript command. >> >> Form a query using a 'whose' clause to select the process ID. I forget >> what the exact wording is, or whether to ask Finder or System Events, so >> you'll have to experiment. To start, open the scripting dictionary of >> System Events and under its Processes Suite, choose the 'process' class and >> find its 'unix id' property. That's the thing you need to use in a 'whose' >> clause. >> >> Then tell that application to quit. >> > > This works to quit an app with PID 902: > > tell app "System Events" to set x to file of first process whose unix id is > 902 > tell app (POSIX path of x) to quit > > I'm no AppleScript expert, so there's probably a briefer or more elegant > way to do it. > > Hmm, now what did this have to do with Cocoa? > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/arjun.sm%40gmail.com > > This email sent to arjun...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
