How to cleanly end a process started by at?

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 15:19:42 UTC 2020


On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:18:30 +0000, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

>> Is there any way to simulate whatever happens when I hit Ctrl-C on the
>> keyboard when my script is running interactively in a terminal
>> session?
>
>Ctrl-C sends the SIGINT signal, so "timeout --signal=INT 1h ..." should
>do what you want.
>

Thanks for your response!

It did the trick, now when the task ends the video is properly closed!
I used:
timeout --signal=2 4m getvideo test.mp4 <URL> 94

where getvideo is my script simplifying the use of youtube-dl.

The video was recorded and closed and the resulting length was 4:05
min so it is probably within what can be expected based on the
streaming protocol (94) (where I think many small parts are sent).

Thanks again!


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden





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