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My mail fetching script kills mu before calling "mu index", like so : $ pgrep mu && kill `pgrep mu` $ mu index It works perfectly. Mu4e then restarts mu when

My mail fetching script kills mu before calling "mu index", like so : $ pgrep mu && kill `pgrep mu` $ mu index It works perfectly. Mu4e then restarts mu when it needs it. I think I saw that as the recommended setup somewhere in the mu docs.

u801e 8y ago
> $ pgrep mu && kill `pgrep mu` This could be rewritten as: $ pkill mu
tom4000 8y ago
With `pkill $(pgrep mu)` or even with `pkill mu` you can kill mutt and any mu$ process as well. `pkill -x mu` matches the whole name without substrings.