There are times when even decent chaps have to pick up the sword and fight. I am talking about times when some process on your machine is always peeking over your shoulder. Worst part, consumes a lot of resources, especially CPU time, and obstructs your productivity. Or peace of mind.
For such cases, I give you slay.sh - a little script which looks for a process by its name and keeps killing it.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
screen_width () {
tput cols
}
patch_spaces_needed () {
local columns
columns="$(screen_width)"
echo "$((columns - ${#1}))"
}
render_msg () {
num_spaces="$(patch_spaces_needed "$1")"
printf -v trailing "%0.s " $(seq 1 "$num_spaces")
echo >&2 -ne "${1}$trailing\r"
}
kill_process_by_name () {
local process_name="$1"
if [[ -z "$process_name" ]]; then
render_msg "Process name to terminate not specified"
elif pgrep -x "$process_name" >/dev/null; then
render_msg "Process '$process_name' is running. Killing..."
sudo pkill -x "$process_name"
else
render_msg "Process '$process_name' is not running."
fi
}
keep_killing_process_by_name () {
local process_name="$1"
local interval="${2:-5}"
while true; do
kill_process_by_name "$process_name"
sleep "$interval"
done
echo
}
If you would like to keep killing that monitoring daemon, one that monitors you, you just call this:
keep_killing_process_by_name "<process-monitoring-me>" # default interval to check = 5 seconds
