How to Fake Ctrl-C?

Question

When I run an mp3 command by doing mpg123 Thunder.mp3, it runs in a loop. Is there any way to fake a Control-C keyboard interrupt via bash script?

Answer 1

(I use mpg123 as example program)
As the comment say, you need

$ pkill mpg123

Alternative:

$ killall mpg123

Also, you'd better check if the process is indeed running:

$ pgrep -f mpg123

Reference:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30542550/how-to-kill-processes-in-bash
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/160924/how-can-i-kill-a-process-by-name-instead-of-pid