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Close terminal window after using xterm

I have the following code 

xterm -e <some command>  & 
<line 2 command>

Now after the line 2 command I want the close the xterm -e window automated.

How can I close the terminal window that I opened in the my script?

Thanks!

Solution

  • You can simply get PID of the last background task lauched with $!, and then kill it after your line 2 command is achived.

    xterm -e <some command>  &
myBackgroundXtermPID=$!
<line 2 command>
kill $myBackgroundXtermPID

    I assume that if your background process ends before line 2 , its PID will not be reused by another process (if you run out of PID numbers).