Basically I want to dynamically start some processes which may create their own children processes, also I want to kill a certain group of processes I just created whenever I want. One way I could think of is to start processes with a name(to distinguish as a group), then use pkill to kill them by the name. The question is how to start a process with a name so that I can use pkill to kill them by the name? I am open to other solutions as well.
How can I start a process with a different name?
bash -c "exec -a <MyProcessName> <Command>"
Then you can kill the process with:
pkill -f MyProcessName
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