I need to search for a certain process and kill that process. I wrote a command like this:
ps -e | grep dmn | awk '{print $1}' | kill
Where the process name is dmn
. But it is not working. How can I find processes by name and kill
them.
I need to search for a certain process and kill that process. I wrote a command like this:
ps -e | grep dmn | awk '{print $1}' | kill
Where the process name is dmn
. But it is not working. How can I find processes by name and kill
them.
kill $(ps -e | grep dmn | awk '{print $1}')
In case there are multiple processes that you want to remove you can use this:
ps -efw | grep dmn | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
Note: You need to remove grep process itself from the output, that's why grep -v grep
is used.
You could use
pkill dmn
if your system has the pkill command.
Just adding on others, but I like using awk's regex features capacity:
kill $(ps | awk '/dmn/{print $1}')
If you have the pidof
command on your system ( I know shells such as ZSH come with this by default, unless I'm mistaken), you could do something like.
kill -9 $(pidof dmn)
You can also use killall:
killall dmn
for procid in $(ps -aux | grep "some search" | awk '{print $2}'); do kill -9 $procid; done
hello friends .. we can do it using for loop .
"Some search" is here any process name you want to search, for example "java" so let say count of java process is 200+ so killing one by one will be too typical .
so you can use above command.
Thanks.
You might not need pipe
for this, if you have pidof
command and know the image name, I did it like this:
kill $(pidof synergyc)
$()
I understand this as it converts that output to a variable that kill can use, essentially like pipe would do. Shorter and easier to understand than some other options but also maybe less flexible and more direct.
Use pgrep
with -f option.
kill $(pgrep -f dmn)