Useful for killing all running applications that may prevent a restart for an upgrade. Killing apps does not allow for saving work. Use only as a last resort.

Kill Running Apps.bash

#!/bin/bash

# there's probably a better way to use lsappinfo to get the list of apps, but it's not well documented
appsList=$( /usr/bin/lsappinfo list | /usr/bin/grep -B 4 Foreground | /usr/bin/awk -F '\\) "|" ASN' 'NF > 1 { print $2 }' )

# kill each app by name except Finder
while IFS= read anApp
do
	if [ "$anApp" != "Finder" ]; then
		/usr/bin/pkill "$anApp"
		echo "Killing app '$anApp'"
	fi
done <<< "$appsList"

# wait a few second and kill Microsoft Error Reporting tool if it opens by killing a Microsoft app
sleep 3
/usr/bin/pkill "Microsoft Error Reporting"

exit 0