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Kill all background jobs

List background jobs, grep their number - not process id - and then kill them Show Sample Output
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```
[1]    24167 terminated  ./test
[4]  - 24201 terminated  ./test
[2]    24184 terminated  ./test                                                                                          
[3]  - 23062 terminated  ./test
[5]  + 24218 terminated  ./test
```
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jobs | grep -o "[0-9]" | while read j; do kill %$j; done

haggen · 2012-04-12 17:29:58 6
Kill the process *group* containing a process named svscan (djb's daemontools)

Daemontools[1] won't always properly reap it's children. Sometimes when you need to kill the main svscan process, you want to also clean up all of it's children. The way to do that is to send a signal to the entire process group. It is a bit tricky [1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
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kill -9 -$(ps x -o "%c %r" | awk '/svscan/{print $2}')

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 16:39:02 9
Command to kill PID

You can also use gawk: ps auxww | gawk '/application/' | gawk '/processtobekilled/' | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9
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ps auxww | grep application | grep processtobekilled | gawk '{print $2}' | grep -v grep | xargs kill -9

j0sh10 · 2012-07-03 20:37:56 42
Kill all processes belonging to a user

Kill all processes belonging to a user, with a minimum of resource usage. Great for the times when a user fork-bombs the system and it's difficult to login or run commands.
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sudo -u $USER kill -9 -1

jeffenstein · 2012-09-14 12:03:25 5
avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Execute commands serially on a list of hosts. Each ssh connection is made in the background so that if, after five seconds, it hasn't closed, it will be killed and the script will go on to the next system. Maybe there's an easier way to set a timeout in the ssh options...
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for host in $MYHOSTS; do ping -q -c3 $H 2>&1 1>/dev/null && ssh -o 'AllowedAuthe ntications publickey' $host 'command1; command2' & for count in 1 2 3 4 5; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done

a8ksh4 · 2012-11-13 23:12:27 5
avoid ssh hangs using jobs

Cleaned up and silent with &>/dev/null at the end. Show Sample Output
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```
Nothing.
```
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for host in $HOSTNAMES; do ping -q -c3 $host && ssh $host 'command' & for count in {1..15}; do sleep 1; jobs | wc -l | grep -q ^0\$ && continue; done; kill %1; done &>/dev/null

somaddict · 2012-11-16 02:31:27 4
Kill a lot of process once a time
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ps aux | grep <process> | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -i -t kill -9 {}

szimbaro · 2013-02-27 12:33:30 4
Kill Session
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kill -9 `ps -u <user> -o "pid="`

ryanymous · 2013-03-27 14:07:35 4
Kill all processes found in grep

Kills all processes with a certain string. This was done to kill all ssh sessions openned by zenoss which look like: usr/bin/ssh /opt/zenoss/bin/zenmodeler
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for line in `ps aux | grep <string> | awk '{print $2}'`; do sudo kill $line; done;

mjbrune · 2013-11-24 00:02:16 17
Kill the X Server

There are times when a X Window server hangs. When this happens, you can log in on a terminal and kill the Xorg process (i.e. the X Server). This one line command will do the trick.
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sudo kill -9 $( ps -e | grep Xorg | awk '{ print $1 }' )

jeffskinnerbox · 2014-06-01 22:43:32 7
Find a process by name and automatically kill it
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PID=$(ps -ef | grep processName | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2'}); kill -9 $PID

lysergication · 2014-11-11 05:12:19 10
check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)

display dd status on OSX (coreutils) every 10 seconds Show Sample Output
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```
664+0 records in
664+0 records out
696254464 bytes (696 MB) copied, 426.767 s, 1.6 MB/s
```
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watch -n 10 sudo kill -INFO $(pgrep -l '^dd$' | cut -d ' ' -f 1)

nfarrar · 2014-11-23 21:21:08 7
Kill google chrome process

Kills all browser tabs, without killing browser or extensions.
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kill $(ps x | grep '\/chrome *.* --type=renderer ' | awk '{print $1}')

karma0 · 2015-03-01 16:28:14 8
Deletes cpu time consuming plugin-containe triggered by firefox

Some times firefox run a plugin named "plugin-containe". It sometimes take so much cpu that it is impossible to keep browsing. When this happens, one can simply kill the process. If the process does not exist, the command returns an innocuous error message.
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kill -9 `top -b -n 1 | grep plugin-containe | awk '{print $1}'`

otaviolb · 2015-09-08 18:14:53 11
Do not log last session in bash history:

If logged in via ssh, you'll be knocked out.
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kill -9 $$

bishamon · 2016-03-22 00:51:46 12
Auto-kill auto-spawned process

Given a process name (kdiff3 in this example) that keeps auto-spawning/starting, auto-kill until it stops, assuming there is an upper limit (if not, reboot). This was beneficial after I clicked the DIFF button in a git GUI on a merge commit. 2000+ files were being opened one after the other in my diff program (kdiff3). Each time I closed one (or quit Kdiff3), the next file would be auto-opened in Kdiff3.
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while [ ! -z $(ps -A | grep -m1 kdiff3 | awk '{print $1}') ]; do kill -9 $(ps -A | grep -m1 kdiff3 | awk '{print $1}'); sleep 1; done

supervisord · 2016-06-07 21:56:44 12
Kill all Zombie processes one-liner

May need to substitute 'awk' for 'gawk'.
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ps axo state,ppid | awk '!/PPID/$1~"Z"{print $2}' | xargs -r kill -9

epixoip · 2017-12-07 00:47:12 23
kill the first docker container in docker ps

Useful when developing and you donut usually have other docker commands running Show Sample Output
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```
 2018-05-24 15:06:10 ? |ruby-2.4.1| Jim-Park-MacBook-Pro in ~/workspace/example
±  |master ?| ? docker kill $(docker ps -q)
abc123456789
```
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docker kill $(docker ps -q)

jim80net · 2018-05-24 22:11:06 194
Kill all processes that listen to ports begin with 50 (50, 50x, 50xxx,...)
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sudo netstat -plnt | grep :50 | awk '{print $7}' | awk -F/ '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9

hiepdev · 2018-06-07 01:42:49 223
find and kill a zombie process

You cannot kill zombies, as they are already dead. But if you have too many zombies then kill parent process or restart service. You can kill zombie process using PID obtained from the above command. For example kill zombie proces having PID 4104: # kill -9 4104 Please note that kill -9 does not guarantee to kill a zombie process.
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kill -HUP `ps -A -ostat,ppid,pid,cmd | grep -e '^[Zz]' | awk '{print $2}'`

6peng · 2009-02-06 02:42:14 15
kill all processes of a program

kill all processes of a program
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kill -9 $(pidof *program*)

salazar · 2009-02-13 18:56:58 10
Force kill all named processes
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kill -9 $(ps -ef | grep [h]ttpd | awk '{print $2}')

peterRepeater · 2012-02-28 13:15:55 5
Slow down IO heavy process

compare to alternative : - directly tests the -STOP of the process to continue or stop loop, - background operator should be set (or not) at the call of the function For extension i suggest a slowPID() based on kill like above and a slowCMD based on killall.
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slow () { [ -n $1 ] && while kill -STOP $1; do sleep 1; kill -CONT $1; sleep 1; done }

makidoko · 2012-05-16 19:16:50 3
Find a process by name and automatically kill it
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ps aux | grep name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

unixmonkey84604 · 2014-11-11 09:19:24 8
Display Spinner while waiting for some process to finish

Replace 'sleep 10' with the command to wait for Show Sample Output
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```
\oOooo
```
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sleep 10 & perl -e '$|=@s=qw(-Ooooo \oOooo |ooOoo /oooOo -ooooO \oooOo |ooOoo /oOooo);while(kill 0,'$!'){ print "\r",$s[$t++%($#s+1)];select(undef,undef,undef,0.2);}'

unixmonkey74668 · 2015-05-09 10:00:35 9
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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Does a traceroute. Lookup and display the network or AS names and AS numbers.

From the man page. lft ? display the route packets take to a network host/socket using one of several layer-4 protocols and methods; optionally show heuristic network information in transitu -A Enable lookup and display of of AS (autonomous system) numbers (e.g., [1]). This option queries one of several whois servers (see options 'C' and 'r') in order to ascertain the origin ASN of the IP address in question. By default, LFT uses the pWhoIs service whose ASN data tends to be more accurate and more timely than using the RADB as it is derived from the Internet's global routing table. -N Enable lookup and display of network or AS names (e.g., [GNTY-NETBLK-4]). This option queries Prefix WhoIs, RIPE NCC, or the RADB (as requested). In the case of Prefix WhoIs or RADB, the network name is displayed. In the case of RIPE NCC, the AS name is displayed.

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cycle through everything sox knows how to read, playing only the first three seconds

I wasted two hours reading the sox documentation and searching on the web for the format of some obscure fscking sound sample, and then finally came up with this. This plays only the first three seconds of your unknown formatted sound file using every one of sox's built-in filetypes. If you don't get an exact match, you may get close. . I could not fit every single type in and keep it under 127 characters, so you will have to replace "..." with the full list obtainable by `$ sox --help` (or try `Show sample output`) . note: /usr/bin/play should be linked to sox on most systems.

kill all foo process

Kill all processes with foo in them. Similar to pkill but more complete and also works when there is no pkill command. Works on almost every Linux/Unix platform I have tried.

List out classes in of all htmls in directory

Lists out all classes used in all *.html files in the currect directory. usefull for checking if you have left out any style definitions, or accidentally given a different name than you intended. ( I have an ugly habit of accidentally substituting camelCase instead of using under_scores: i would name soemthing counterBox instead of counter_box) WARNING: assumes you give classnames in between double quotes, and that you apply only one class per element.

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