Re: [Evolution] Take Evolution offline from a bash script?

[larry <lar3ry sasktel net>]

On Sat, 2021-10-16 at 22:39 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > What is speaking against
> > > $ evolution --help | grep shutdown
> > >   --force-shutdown              Forcibly shut down Evolution
> > > ?
> > Apparently, nothing. I was unaware of the option. I am relatively
> > new to Linux, and while I definitely know about thngs like --help
> > and man pages, I did not think to try them, as Evolution comes with
> > its own help file, and I saw nothing in it to indicate forced
> > shutdown as a possibility.
> $ man evolution
> ...
>        --force-shutdown
>               Forcibly shut down Evolution and background Evolution-
> Data-Server processes.

Uh.. right.

Hence:
"while I definitely know about things like --help and man pages, I did
not think to try them, as Evolution comes with its own help file, and I
saw nothing in it to indicate forced shutdown as a possibility."