Combining --force and --silent

[thinkofapps]

We need to kill a node process that runs a server (e.g. on port 8000) as part of our deployment script.

Using "fkill :8000" doesn't terminate the process, so we need "fkill -f :8000"

Unfortunately, fkill is returning an error code when there is no process running on port 8000. So we added the silent switch "fkill -f -s :8000"

This works, but gives an error message when no process has been found, which should not be the case using -s.

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• #65 Combining --force and --silent #64
• #73 Add test for silent force kill

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[sindresorhus]

Yeah, that's a bug. It should work like you describe. PR welcome :)

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[ulken]

I looked into this. I wasn't able to reproduce it when cloning the repository. However, when installing it from npm, it did indeed fail as described.

Reason: npm is not up-to-date with the repository. To be more precise, dependencies have been updated and fkill in particular. Version 6.2.0 introduced support for the silent option in fkill which fixes this issue.

Fix: Publish a new version with the current repository state to npm

[ulken]

@sindresorhus Thoughts on the above?

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@ulken The bounty is yours if you submit a test that shows that it's already fixed.

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