Close fzf

[Wateir]

Hello

I have a little part of the script i launch on the background

( paru -Qua > /dev/null 
paru_exit_code=$? 
checkupdates > /dev/null 
checkupdates_exit_code=$?
 ) &

This can take some time (400 ms on my machine) so for make my little script seems more responsible i launch it on background and just after launch fzf with all the rest of my script.

but if the test fail, i close fzf with a little message

( # If both commands return 1 (no updates or error), interrupt the program
if [[ $paru_exit_code -ne 0 && $checkupdates_exit_code -ne 0 ]]; then
    kill $(pgrep -n fzf)
    echo "No updates available, exiting the program."
    exit 15
fi
 ) &

The issue here is that, the user can have only one fzf menu open, or the script gonna kill one underdermined, and i can't now wich one.

So i thinking i launching fzf with a custom name, pgrep this name and, kill it.

[junegunn]

I think you can use $PPID.

# This will kill itself in 5 seconds
fzf --bind 'start:execute-silent:(sleep 5; kill $PPID) &'

[Wateir]

Thanks for the replie, but it's not exacly what i want to achieve, i want a kill on conditions, if conditions true then kill fzf rather than kill it after a amount of time.

Gonna start of this base and see if i can come with something good