How to kill all processes matching a name

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Say I want to kill every process containing the word amarok  I can print out the commands I want to execute  But how do I actually make the shell execute them  ie   ps aux   grep -ie amarok   awk   print  kill -9    2   Output  kill -9 3052 kill -9 3071 kill -9 3076 kill -9 3077 kill -9 3079 kill -9 3080 kill -9 3082 kill -9 3083 kill -9 3084 kill -9 3085 kill -9 3086 kill -9 3087 kill -9 3088 kill -9 3089 kill -9 4031

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use pgrep  kill -9   pgrep amarok

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pkill -x matches the process name exactly   pkill -x amarok   pkill -f is similar but allows a regular expression pattern   Note that pkill  with no other parameters  e g  -x  -f  will allow partial matches on process names  So  pkill amarok  would kill amarok  amarokBanana  bananaamarok  etc   I wish -x was the default behavior

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You can also evaluate your output as a sub-process  by surrounding everything with back ticks or with putting it inside        ps aux   grep -ie amarok   awk   print  kill -9    2        ps aux   grep -ie amarok   awk   print  kill -9    2

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I think this command killall is exactly what you need  The command is described as  kill processes by name  It s easy to use For example  killall chrome   This command will kill all process of Chrome Here is a link about killall command  http   linux about com library cmd blcmdl1 killall htm  Hope this command could help you

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If you want to execute the output of a command  you can put it inside         however for your specific task take a look at the killall and pkill commands

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try kill -s 9  ps -ef  grep  quot Nov 11 quot   grep -v grep   awk   print  2     To kill processes of November 11 or kill -s 9  ps -ef  grep amarok grep -v grep   awk   print  2     To kill processes that contain the word amarok

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ps aux   grep -ie amarok   awk   print  2     xargs kill -9    xargs 1   xargs -- construct argument list s  and execute utility   Helpful when you want to pipe in arguments to something like kill or ls or so on

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If you re using cygwin or some minimal shell that lacks killall you can just use this script   killall sh - Kill by process name     bin bash ps -W   grep   1    awk   print  1     xargs kill --   Usage     killall  lt process name gt

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Maybe adding the commands to executable file  setting  x permission and then executing   ps aux   grep -ie amarok   awk   print  kill -9    2    gt  pk chmod  x pk   pk rm pk

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From man 1 pkill  -f     The pattern is normally only matched against the process name         When -f is set  the full command line is used    Which means  for example  if we see these lines in ps aux   apache   24268  0 0  2 6 388152 27116          S    Jun13   0 10  usr sbin httpd apache   24272  0 0  2 6 387944 27104          S    Jun13   0 09  usr sbin httpd apache   24319  0 0  2 6 387884 27316          S    Jun15   0 04  usr sbin httpd   We can kill them all using the pkill -f option   pkill -f httpd

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The safe way to do this is   pkill -f amarok

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