Kill Me Softly: killing a process The Right Way

I was tired of repeating the same old pattern. Send a kill signal. Check with pgrep. Did the process exit? Send a kill -9.

Now all my knowledge has been permanently dumped here:

Kill Me Softly on GitHub

If you want to kill a process by letting it to exit gracefully, and yet kill it without mercy if it's too slow to exit, that's your new favourite shell script.

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