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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