Invoke a Command-line Program Using Python

In Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc. you can either start up programs using the user interface (pointing and clicking with your mouse) or from a command line. When you run something from the command line, it does basically the same thing behind the scenes, but you type commands instead.
For example, in Windows, you can open Internet [...] Read more »

How to Kill a Running Process in Linux

First you must determine the PID of the process you want to kill. This can be done usually pretty easily with the top command in Linux. When you type top at the command line, it shows you the processes that are consuming the most resources at the time on the system. Most likely the one [...] Read more »