I'm new to Linux and I'm building a program that receives the name of a process, gets its PID (I have no problem with that part) and then passes the PID to the kill command, but its not working. It...

Sep 20, 2017 · How can I kill a process by name instead of PID, on Linux? [duplicate] Asked 17 years, 4 months ago Modified 1 month ago Viewed 897k times

May 2, 2017 · How do I kill a process which is running in bash - for example, suppose I open a file: $ gedit file.txt is there any way within the command prompt to close it? This example is trivial, since I co...

Say I want to kill every process containing the word amarok. I can print out the commands I want to execute. But how do I actually make the shell execute them. ie. ps aux | grep -ie amarok | awk '...

Apr 22, 2019 · You are correct that kill -15 is to gracefully kill a process. But, killing a process is something that happens instantaneously. So the program above is going to check for pid, attempting …

Jul 20, 2012 · I want to kill the tomcat process running on 8080. I first want to have the list of processes running on a specific port (8080) in order to select which process to kill.

Kill will kill all the processes in one go, you don't need a loop for that. If the ps returns three processes 123, 234, and 345, you can kill 123 234 345 just like you can rm or cat multiple file arguments.

Jul 18, 2024 · Edit I could kill the process on the computer. In the above example, it would be kill -9 3221. (to kill the parent process) Good, but what is the process name but not rather a PID? (because …

If you're using Windows Terminal then the killing process might be little less tedious. I've been using windows terminal and kill PID works fine for me to kill processes on the port as the new Windows …

(1) If you're not limited to using those basic tools, there's a nifty pgrep command which will find processes based on certain criteria (assuming you have it available on your system, of course). For …