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kill process by name

Terminal - kill process by name
pkill -x firefox
2010-05-02 02:17:21
User: SuperJediWombat
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kill process by name

Or even easier, if it's available:

killall firefox

I have no idea why you would want to rely on two unusual dependencies to do something that can be done a hundred ways from coreutils...

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Terminal - Alternatives
rush> processes.filter(:cmdline => /mc/).kill
2010-05-01 20:51:18
User: chenge
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kill process by name

It's easy to understand and remember. Need ruby and rush to do this.

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killall -9 <processname>
2011-12-09 02:53:46
User: symgryph
Functions: killall
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kill process by name

Kills process by name

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kill -9 `pgrep firefox`
2010-05-02 23:05:25
User: dustindorroh
Functions: kill
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kill process by name
pgrep firefox

- this returns the Process ID for the signal firefox

kill -9 pid

- this kills the signal that had the given pid

cmd1 `cmd1` or cmd1 $(cmd1)

- here is the syntax for cmd2 to be executed first. Then the call to cmd2 is substituted with the output of cmd2, and cmd1 is executed.

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What others think

Why not simply do pkill -x firefox ?

Comment by scifisamurai 159 weeks and 1 day ago

Haha, good point. I have edited my command but here is the original for referance:

kill $(pgrep -x firefox)

Thanks, scifisamurai.

Comment by SuperJediWombat 159 weeks and 1 day ago

*WARNING*

Do *NOT* use 'killall' under Solaris. It does exactly that - kills all processes, unlike Linux which kills the specified process.

I rather intelligently found this out on a production SS7 telephone exchange.

Comment by ianh 159 weeks and 1 day ago

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