How to kill all processes matching a name

Question

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

User · Answer

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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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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The safe way to do this is   pkill -f amarok

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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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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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use pgrep  kill -9   pgrep 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 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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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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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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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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