ps aux | grep 'thing' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

devereaux · on Nov 8, 2016

Not the same. An option for block selection (say using alt-click) would be a great addition to a terminal.

Someday I get sick of running such long lines I may code that for roxterm.

amyjess · on Nov 8, 2016

My own version of that command:

    ps -ef | grep 'thing' | awk '{print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh

On most of my systems, I tend to make a shell script out of it and usually save it to /usr/local/bin/kll (and I don't care about grepping out grep because it doesn't seem to affect anything).

partycoder · on Nov 8, 2016

grrr....

    pkill thing

    killall thing

And then there's also pgrep instead of ps | grep

amyjess · on Nov 8, 2016

killall and pkill don't work if the thing I'm trying to grep for isn't the first word of the process string.

Let's say I'm trying to kill 'python foobar.py' but I don't want to kill 'python bazquux.py'. The only thing it'll respond to with killall is 'killall python', but then both of them will respond. So I have to grep out the parameter and then kill that, with: ps -ef | grep 'foobar.py' | awk '{print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh

skovorodkin · on Nov 8, 2016

Check out -f parameter of pkill.

amyjess · on Nov 8, 2016

Ooh... nice! Thanks!