Stopping emulators from terminal?

[daeks]

Hi,

I have a quick question about the terminal functionallity: Is there a common way/script which allows me to quit the currently running emulator from a terminal session? How could I archive that?

[meleu]

@daeks You need:

• pgrep
• kill
• tail
• /dev/shm/runcommand.info

How to do it:

1. Get the last (4th) line of runcommand.info with tail. It's the full command line used to launch the most recent launched emulator.
2. Check if this command is still running with pgrep.
3. If it's running, kill it!

I can't give you a script now cause I'm away from my RetroPie...

[daeks]

@meleu thanks :) that will help me alot as a starting point. If you have access to your instance later on, it would be really nice to share a script :)

[daeks]

I tried to setup a script and possible extension for retropie here: https://github.com/daeks/jslisten-abort
The intention of this extension is to be able to kill all emulators only with a controller (for example: scummvm if you have no keyboard available)

Unfortunately emulators like scummvm are started with bash script. Is there a better way to fetch the binary for such emulators?