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How to kill a bash function and what it runs
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backgroundBashFunction.bash
#!/bin/bash
set -o xtrace
function task {
cat /dev/random >/dev/null
}
task & pid=$!
sleep 1
ps -fH
kill $pid
ps -fH
# At this point we see that the 'cat' is still running
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