[vlc] Only one VLC instance

[Dotan Cohen]

On 15/10/2007, Technique TV Inathèque <hgibier at ina.fr> wrote:
> In a shell script : you could use "ps" to get back the ID of
> processes running on your system, and "grep" to recover just the ID
> of process running VLC.
> Then , you can send him a signal SIGTERM with "kill no_ID SIGTERM",
> it closes VLC.
> I try this trick with MAC OS X, it's OK. Don't know how it works on
> Fedora.
> Hope this will help you.
> Best regards.
> Hervé
>

Thanks, Herve, if I knew bash that's exactly what I'd be doing. I'm no
guru myself, and I don't want to have my first bash script running
unsupported on my stepmother's box a five hour drive from home.

Dotan Cohen

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