kill all running instances of wine and programs runned by it (exe)

ps ax | egrep "*.exe|*exe]" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill

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By: coffeeaddict_nl

2011-03-01 09:48:47

awk egrep ps xargs kill wine exe

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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 5
kill all running instances of wine and programs runned by it (exe)

This command kills all wine instances and each EXE application working on a PC. Here is command info: 1) ps ax > processes = save process list to file named "processes" (we save it because we don't wont egrep to be found in the future) 2) cat processes | egrep "*.exe |*exe]" = shows the file "processes" and after greps for each *.exe and *exe] in it 3) | awk '{ print $1 }' > pstokill = saves processes PID's to file "pstokill" using awk filter 4) kill $(cat pstokill) = kills each PID in file pstokill, which is shown by cat program 5) rm processes && rm pstokill = removes temporary files Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
(silence if ok; kill usage if there are no EXE/wine programs running)
```
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ps ax > processes && cat processes | egrep "*.exe |*exe]" | awk '{ print $1 }' > pstokill && kill $(cat pstokill) && rm processes && rm pstokill

sxiii · 2011-02-26 16:13:58 7

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