News How To Kill a Process in Linux

[Admin]

Sometimes things go wrong and we have to kill a running process. In this how-to we show you how easy this can be via the terminal.

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[Sergei Tachenov]

I find pkill to be most useful. But this is probably because I often need to kill Java processes, and they all share the same executable, so killall java is obviously not an option. With pkill, I can kill a process not by its name, but by its argument list, e. g. pkill -f some-app.jar.

 

[hotaru.hino]

I like to use ps aux | grep -i [search term] if I need to look for something specific to kill

 

[Sergei Tachenov]

If often use that one too, but sometimes pgrep works better. Especially in scripts, where it’s important that the process search command doesn’t match itself.

 

[Kill tout]

I use xkill because its more fast when my pf get fire... just dropdown terminal emulator and xkill with touchscreen

 

[strayling]

kill -9

It's the only way to be sure.

 

[jcipale]

Anyone who has worked with unix/linux for more then a month learns this. This article is just another example of someone getting paid by the word.