[SOLVED] How to kill a running script from another script?

Issue

I have a a.sh script that executes a infinite loop with a list of commands in background in a Debian machine and I would like to use another script b.sh to end with a.sh. As far as I know pkill -f a.sh is one way of doing it, but I want to know if there is another way of doing it

Solution

man -k kill shows many commands to kill processes. Watch out (1) (general commands) and (8) (admin commands). At my system I get (manually filtered):

killproc (8)         - Send signals to processes by full path name
docker-container-kill (1) - Kill one or more running containers
docker-kill (1)      - Kill one or more running containers
kill (1)             - terminate a process
killall (1)          - kill processes by name
killall5 (8)         - send a signal to all processes.
pkill (1)            - look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes
skill (1)            - send a signal or report process status

Answered By - Wiimm