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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2021-10-16 at 15:57 -0600, larry wrote:
> 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."

It's always worth checking out the man page, even though increasing
numbers of GUI-based apps don't seem to have one.

poc