Greg Guerin <glgue...@amug.org> 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.

In other words, write a little "application quitter" tool in Applescript.

Should already be there, IMO.

Bill
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