Linux script question

[massahwahl]

On my media center I have a radio tuner that I created a desktop icon to start and tune to my favorite station. The script looks like this:

ivtv-radio -f 101.7

which works great, except I have no way to kill it when Im done listening. What command can write to kill the radio when im done?

 

[Motoxrdude]

Well you can just kill ivtv-radio all together

killall ivtv-radio

 

[massahwahl]

Well you can just kill ivtv-radio all together

killall ivtv-radio

ive tried that and it wont stop it.

 

[Cromewell]

Try pkill -f aplay

 

[massahwahl]

Try pkill -f aplay

bingo! that did it. Thanks!

 

[tlarkin]

What is the process called? You can write another script to kill it

#!/bin/bash

radio=`ps -A | grep <processname> -c`

if [[ $radio == 1 ]]

   then killall <processname>

   else echo "radio not playing"

fi

exit
done

Of course you may have to tweak it but that would be a way to kill the process via another script.

 

[Cromewell]

ivtv-radio uses aplay to output the sound. You should be able to ctrl-c it as well if you run it from a shell window.

 

[tlarkin]

ivtv-radio uses aplay to output the sound. You should be able to ctrl-c it as well if you run it from a shell window.

OK, so if you replace <process name> with aplay then my script should technically work. The syntax may be a bit different as I write all my scripts for Unix systems mostly.