How do i terminate Sketch.app after running "sketchtool run --new-instance"?

keronsen

I want to run a plugin command in a background instance of Sketch.app. If I run "sketchtool run" with --new-instance and --without-activating, the new Sketch.app process keeps running after the plugin has finished. How can I terminate it when the plugin command is done?

shaneal

In terminal

killall Sketch

mathieudutour

Be careful tho, if Sketch was already open, it will use that instance instead of creating a new one so you will close a Sketch instance where the user might have some unsaved work

keronsen

Thanks! I'm going to try to solve this by getting the process id of running Sketch processes before I call sketchtool, and then doing the same after it finishes. That way I can kill only the Sketch process that was started by sketchtool.

mathieudutour Using the --new-instance option ensures that sketchtool does not use the Sketch.app that a user is working in, or am I misunderstanding that?

shaneal

You can also do:

osascript -e 'quit app "Sketch"'

Haimonline

keronsen Did you manage to run the plugin on the new instance? I am using the --new-instance option but the plugin is being called on the existing instance and not the new one. 10x!