Wednesday, July 05, 2006

How to terminate process by name in UNIX

kill -9 `ps -ef | grep process_name | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

Note that the grep process_name should be the command that you ran. Also note that the commands after 'kill -9' are enclosed in backtiks.
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6 comments:

  1. Unknown4/12/2007 12:33 AM

    or
    killall -9 process_name
    or
    pkill -9 process_name

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  2. Anonymous10/20/2010 3:06 AM

    Thanks, this is exactly what I needed.

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  3. Titwan3/05/2011 6:17 AM

    great an efficient, thanks

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  4. Anonymous9/27/2011 9:22 AM

    Great! Thanks a lot

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  5. Anonymous5/23/2012 4:39 PM

    What if the process names are similar and you get results for both? For example semimonthly and monthly. I tried using quotes but I still get results for both instead of one or the other

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  6. Anonymous7/26/2012 11:19 PM

    Another working way:

    ps -el | grep "startct" | awk '{ print $4 }' | xargs kill -9

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