SelectKill
is a simple bash script which interactively and selectively kills a group of processes matching certain pattern.
- download the repository
git clone https://github.com/Gyumeijie/SelectKill.git
- cd into the
SelectKill
, and run the following command
./install.sh
- now you can play with the
SelectKill
command
As shown above, all the processes match the pattern root
will be displayed in the option region, you can use the up/down
keys to select which process you want to kill.
may you should try second time:
again, you can try the last time:
but if you failed for three times, SelectKill
will give you the following message:
Say, you have the root priviledge and then you can kill the process with pid equavilent to 27237
. Maybe you
need to go through some steps talked above--typing your password.
The SelectKill
has two regions: message region
and options region
. The message region is used to
display information, say details of long option which is too long to display in the region; and the options region is
to show information of processes matching the pattern, if one option is too long, we deprecate it at some point and
replace the deprecated content with ...
and when the long option is being selected we display the original information
back in the message region.
As shown in the picture above, we can customize the size of both regions in the config.ini
file. Say we can have message region set to 4 rows
and option region to 5 rows
, the following is the corresponding setting:
LISTNUM=5 # size of option region
MSGNUM=4 # size of message region
Instant messages like prompting successfully killing a process or being denied to kill a process should not be always
shown in message region, so we can give them a duration for displaing, say 1.5 s
, and when the duration is elapsed we show other messages. The following is the corresponding setting:
SHOW_DURATION=1.5
We can also set the initially selected option, the default is not choosing any option in the region, but we can set it to, say, the first option or any other option. The following is the corresponding setting:
INIT_SELECTED=-1
and any invalid value which is less than -1
or greater than the number of total options will be forcibly
reset to the default -1
.
- Prettify processes information shown in the option region.
- Support refreshing for getting realtime processes information but not a static snapshot.
- Add confirming session for killing a process.