At Linux, sometimes we want to search all the processes that contain some name and then terminate all of them. We can use “ps augx” to list all processes and the locate those with keyword by using “grep keyword” command. Next, we need to split each line by whitespace delimiter and list the second column which is the process ID. Finally, we feed into xargs command to kill them.
Here is the little BASH Script that does the job well.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" == "" ]; then echo "Usage: $0 process-name" exit 1 fi ps augx | grep "$1" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill |
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 process-name"
exit 1
fi
ps augx | grep "$1" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs killName this “kill-all” and the usage would be like:
1 2 | # kill all running processes with keyword "python" in the process command path $./kill-all python |
# kill all running processes with keyword "python" in the process command path $./kill-all python
Use this at your risk.
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This thing killed my browser and said “Operation Not Permitted” like 2 times. I do not recommend using it. (because if you are logged in as admin it will probably kill something important)