Answers for "kill process by name linux"

kill all processes by name linux

ps -ef | grep 'myProcessName' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -r kill -9

ubuntu kill process by name

# killall process name:
pkill firefox

To kill all the processes that you have the permission to kill,
simply run the command
kill -15 -1 or kill -9 -1 depending on the desired behavior 
(use man kill for details)

To kill a specific process, say, firefox,
simply run pkill firefox 
or killall firefox depending on the behavior you want: 
Whats the difference between 'killall' and 'pkill'?
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Pkill and killall both have distinguishing options. 
Killall has a flag to match by process age, 
pkill has a flag to only kill processes on a given tty. 
Etcetera ad nauseum. Neither is better, 
they just have different specialties.
If you want to see what processes are running use the command
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how to kill process in linux by name

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# How to Kill the supervisord process without the PID
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ps -ef | grep 'supervisord' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -r kill -9

kill process linux

#terminate process with SIGKILL signal by process id
kill -9 pid

how to kill process by command name

pkill firefox

kill all process

killall node -9