Killing previous instances at first time,if running

Question

Following is my script \'Infinite.sh\' code, I am running this script in background,Before running this script, i want to kill all previous instances. But this is killing my cur

Answer 1

Simply check if the pid is the same as the one of the running script.

Something like this could work:

#!/bin/bash

pids=($(pgrep "$(basename "$0")"))

for i in "${pids[@]}"
do
    (( $$ != i)) && kill "$i"
done

while :; do sleep 1;done
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