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Kill all Zombie processes if they accept it!

Tested on FreeBSD 8.1 and CSH. The scripts works correctly but the Zombies do not die! I hope it will run and function as expected in Linux and others. Show Sample Output
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```
No output. But if you want to see the PIDs of your Zombies just use this piece:
ps -xaw -o state -o pid | grep Z | grep -v PID | awk '{print $2}'
```
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kill -9 `ps -xaw -o state -o pid | grep Z | grep -v PID | awk '{print $2}'`

khashmeshab · 2010-10-27 07:19:52 3
Command to logout all the users in one command

It's only to logout all other user's except "root"
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who -u|grep -v root|awk {'print $6'}|kill `awk {'print $0'}`

leosimon · 2010-11-05 12:19:06 16
Command to logout all the users in one command

Only to logout all users except root
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who -u | grep -vE "^root " | kill `awk '{print $6}'`

leosimon · 2010-11-13 16:51:09 16
One liner to kill a process when knowing only the port where the process is running
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kill -9 `lsof -t -i :port_number`

Titi · 2011-01-05 22:10:10 5
Substitute an already running command

eg: Already running cmd sleep 120 Substitution cmd c=$(pgrep sleep) && sleep 5 && kill $c
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c=$(pgrep <cmd>) && <new_cmd> && kill $c

totti · 2011-09-14 19:58:30 3
clear MyDNS-ng cache

Occasionally, to force zone updating, cache flush is necessary. This command is better than restart the mydns daemon.
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kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/mydns.pid`

ironmarc · 2011-10-21 14:29:24 18
Watch the progress of 'dd'

The previously-posted one-liner didn't work for me for whatever reason, so I ended up doing this instead.
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dd if=/dev/urandom of=file.img bs=4KB& sleep 1 && pid=`pidof dd`; while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]]; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 10 && clear; done

unixmonkey31714 · 2012-02-23 01:45:53 3
Kill google chrome process

This one liner is to kill all google chrome tabs. This works similar to $ killall firefox command which is to kill all firefox processes.
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for i in $(ps x | grep chrome | cut -d"?" -f1 | grep -v chrome); do kill -9 $i ; done

sandeepvreddy · 2012-03-01 03:41:39 20
Watch the progress of 'dd'

run this in another terminal, were xxxx is the process ID of the running dd process. the progress will report on the original terminal that you ran dd on
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kill -SIGUSR1 xxxx

netaxiz · 2012-04-12 09:32:24 38
Slow down IO heavy process

Some IO intensive process make the system unresponsive. This function periodically starts/stops a process, which hopefully releases some resources for other activities. This function is useful when ionice is not available Show Sample Output
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```
bash> cp /tmp/BIG /tmp/2 & slow $!
[1] 26494
[2] 26495
```
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slow () { [ -n $1 ] && while ps -p $1 >/dev/null ; do kill -STOP $1; sleep 1; kill -CONT $1; sleep 1; done & }

igorfu · 2012-05-16 12:13:30 3
Kill all processes belonging to a user
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ps -fu $USER | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill [-9]

carlossiscomtec · 2012-07-06 21:17:01 3
kill a process(e.g. conky) by its name, useful when debugging conky:)
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kill `pidof conky`

dileu12 · 2014-03-03 14:39:59 5
docker kill all containers
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docker kill $(docker ps -q)

ochach · 2014-07-27 19:00:41 138
Kill any lingering ssh processes

Also ignoring "sshd" server is necessary since you should not kill ssh server processes.
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ps aux | grep ssh | grep -v grep | grep -v sshd | awk {'print $2'} | xargs -r kill -9

user2390 · 2018-10-01 04:49:09 348
Kill multiple Locked connection by a single user in MYSQL DB
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for i in `mysqladmin -h x.x.x.x --user=root -pXXXX processlist | grep <<username>>| grep <<Locked>>| awk {'print $2'}` do mysqladmin -h x.x.x.x --user=root -pXXX kill $i; done;

r00t4u · 2009-12-06 05:46:48 3
How to get full tread dump for java process

Useful command to get information about running java process and treads, to see log look into the default log for your java application
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kill -3 PID

mrbyte · 2010-04-28 08:22:42 3
Kill all Zombie processes if they accept it!

just a leaner, smaller version. Love the original idea!
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kill -9 `ps xawo state=,pid=|sed -n 's/Z //p'`

AskApache · 2010-10-27 07:38:07 3
kill all process that belongs to you

Kills all process that belongs to the user that runs it - excluding bash, sshd (so putty/ssh session will be spared). The bit that says grep -vE "..." can be extended to include ps line patterns that you want to spare. If no process can be found on the hitlist, it will print # NOTHING TO KILL. Otherwise, it will print # KILL EM ALL, with the cull list.
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ps -u $USER -lf | grep -vE "\-bash|sshd|ps|grep|PPID" > .tmpkill; if (( $(cat .tmpkill | wc -l) > 0 )); then echo "# KILL EM ALL"; cat .tmpkill; cat .tmpkill | awk '{print $4}' | xargs kill -9; else echo "# NOTHING TO KILL"; fi; cat .tmpkill; rm .tmpkill;

zsugiart · 2010-11-04 04:16:50 5
Look for process by filename in command then kill the process

Outputs the PID of any given file run from a command line... Hope it helps!
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ps ax | grep -i ProcessName| kill -9 `awk '/FileName.Ext/ {print $1}'`

bytesabit · 2011-03-24 02:49:49 4
Terminate a find after the first match is found.

If you know that you want only the first match from a 'find' command, this will terminate the find as soon as a match is found. Recent versions of GNU find have the -quit parameter, which does the same thing as this, so this is only useful if you are stuck with an older version of find. or need to write a backward portable script. I can't take credit for this - I saw it on a chat room where I work and thought it was useful, so am sharing it here both for others, and in case I want to remember it in the future. Show Sample Output
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```
$ /bin/sh -c 'find . -name SomeRandomFile.java -print -exec kill $$ \;'
./path/to/SomeRandomFile.java
Terminated
```
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/bin/sh -c 'find . -name FILENAME -print -exec kill $$ \;'

richardneish · 2011-07-20 16:51:18 5
kill all running instances of wine and programs runned by it (exe)

The other 2 commands that are listed will also kill the egrep process and any libexec processes because the .exe isn't escaped so it is really using . meaning anything containing exe. The command i posted escapes the (dot) in .exe and then filters the actual egrep process so that it doesn't get killed before the other processes being killed. Also added the -9 switch for kill to send sigterm to the processes, in case people are wondering why processes aren't getting killed after running just kill . This should work better for people :)
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wineserver -k; killall -9 wine wineserver; for i in `ps ax|egrep "*\.exe"|grep -v 'egrep'|awk '{print $1 }'`;do kill -9 $i;done

godmachine81 · 2011-12-30 01:38:15 4
Kill processes associated with PATTERN

Kill all process that concide whit PATTERN Show Sample Output
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```
kill 28310: No such process
```
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ps -fea | grep PATTERN | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9

luiscachog · 2012-01-27 20:31:36 3
Kill google chrome process
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kill $(pidof chrome)

t0kieu · 2012-03-01 10:03:58 3
Kill google chrome process
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kill -9 $(pidof chrome)

t0kieu · 2012-03-01 10:07:08 3
Kill all threads from a MySQL user

Kills all the threads from the user provided in the WHERE request. Can be refined through the SQL request, of course, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/processlist-table.html for the available columns.
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mysql -BNe "SELECT id FROM processlist WHERE user = 'redmine';" information_schema | while read id; do mysqladmin kill $id; done

anarcat · 2012-03-09 17:37:23 7
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