add util to kill active tasks

src/kill_active_tasks.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Kills all the tasks that hold lock files.
+#
+for actFile in $(ls /tmp/activeConfSearchOrRefine* /tmp/activeDFTTask* /tmp/activeXTBTask*  2> /dev/null)
+do 
+  pid="$(awk -F':|)' '{print $2}' "$actFile" )" 
+  for spid in $(pgrep -P "$pid")
+  do 
+    kill -9 "$spid"
+  done 
+  lockFile="$(awk  '{print $5}' "$actFile")"
+  rm -f "$lockFile"
+  rm -f "$actFile"
+  kill -9 "$pid" 
+done