Kill Sub-Process and not Parent process

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jjkoletar, Jul 2, 2010
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I need to exit a game running on the Panda3D engine. It launches from a web browser and is not a .app . I can do this via Activity monitor but would like to automate this into a one-click operation. If this mean AS, fine. If it means Automator, fine.
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Detrius, Jul 3, 2010
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Step 1:
ps -ax | awk '/your app name here as a regular expression/ { print $1 }' | xargs kill -QUIT

Step 2:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=213726
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