How to kill all subprocesses of shell?
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I'm writing bash script, which does several thing.
In the beginning it starts several monitor scripts, each of them runs some other tools.
At the end of my main script, I would like to kill all things that spawned from my shell.
So, it might looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
some_monitor1.sh &
some_monitor2.sh &
some_monitor3.sh &
do_some_work
...
kill_subprocesses
The thing is that most of these monitors spawn their own subprocesses, so doing (for example): killall some_monitor1.sh
will not always help.
Any other way to handle this situation?
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