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grrr.... pkill thing killall thing And then there's also pgrep instead of ps | grep

• amyjess 10y ago
  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
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  • skovorodkin 10y ago
    Check out -f parameter of pkill.
    • amyjess 10y ago
      Ooh... nice! Thanks!