script to kill a minecraft server that was launched with launch_ftb.sh

kill_ftb.sh

if [ ! -f /tmp/ftb-session-name ]; then
  echo "No session found!  Was the server launched?"
  exit 1
fi

command_prefix="screen -S $session_name -p 0 -X stuff "
crontab_file="/tmp/.cronjobs-$(date '+%s')"
session_name="$(cat /tmp/ftb-session-name)"

# dump existing cron jobs to file
crontab -l > $crontab_file

# clean up any cron jobs from prior runs
sed --in-place '/ftb-server-/d' $crontab_file

# load cron jobs and remove temp file
crontab $crontab_file
rm $crontab_file

# stop the server if it's running
screen -S $session_name -p 0 -X stuff 'say stopping the server in 10 seconds...^M'
sleep 10
screen -S $session_name -p 0 -X stuff 'stop^M'

rm /tmp/ftb-session-name

script for starting: https://gist.github.com/aschuhardt/2694861f662e9b08f58641b1e1c5734f