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Authored by: GalainHH on Aug 28, '03 08:40:27AM

Hello,
what about quitting the finder by killing the process in the terminal ?

I found out, that I quitted the finder several times by mistake, so it could be an advantage take the longer way via the terminal.

Do both things the same, or is killing the process a rude way compared to the "Quit" option in the Menu ?

Greetings
Galain



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Authored by: zeb on Aug 28, '03 12:19:33PM
As far as I know, if you use kill -15 then you are essentially sending a "software termination" signal which is like quit. If you want to read more about this, drudge through this thread over at the forums: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12589

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Authored by: aranor on Aug 28, '03 12:49:06PM
Alternately, you could always do osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to quit'

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