kill a process in bash

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How do I kill a process which is running in bash - for example  suppose I open a file        gedit file txt   is there any way within the command prompt to close it  This example is fairly trivial  since I could just close the window  but it seems to come up a bit  particularly when I mistype commands   Also is there any way to escape an executable which is running  This probably has the same solution  but I thought I d ask anyway   Thanks

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This one is violent use with caution     pkill -9 -e -f processname    If your process name is  sh  it will also kill  bash

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Please check  top  command then if your script or any are running please note  PID   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  CPU  MEM    TIME   COMMAND  1384 root      20   0  514m  32m 2188 S  0 3  5 4  55 09 88 example 14490 root      20   0 15140 1216  920 R  0 3  0 2   0 00 02 example2    kill  lt you process ID gt   Example   kill 1384

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To interrupt it  you can try pressing ctrl c to send a SIGINT  If it doesn t stop it  you may try to kill it using kill -9  lt pid gt   which sends a SIGKILL  The latter can t be ignored intercepted by the process itself  the one being killed    To move the active process to background  you can press ctrl z  The process is sent to background and you get back to the shell prompt  Use the fg command to do the opposite

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You can use the command pkill to kill processes  If you want to  play around   you can use  pgrep   which works exactly the same but returns the process rather than killing it   pkill has the -f parameter that allows you to match against the entire command  So for your example  you can  pkill -f  gedit file txt

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It is not clear to me what you mean by  escape an executable which is running   but ctrl-z will put a process into the background and return control to the command line   You can then use the fg command to bring the program back into the foreground

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try kill -9  processID   To find the process ID you can use ps -ef   grep gedit

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Old post  but I just ran into a very similar problem   After some experimenting  I found that you can do this with a single command   kill   ps aux   grep  lt process name gt    grep -v  grep    cut -d     -f2    In OP s case   lt process name gt  would be  gedit file txt

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You have a multiple options   First  you can use kill  But you need the pid of your process  which you can get by using ps  pidof or pgrep   ps -A     to get the pid  can be combined with grep -or- pidof  lt name gt  -or- pgrep  lt name gt   kill  lt pid gt    It is possible to kill a process by just knowing the name  Use pkill or killall   pkill  lt name gt  -or- killall  lt name gt    All commands send a signal to the process  If the process hung up  it might be neccessary to send a sigkill to the process  this is signal number 9  so the following examples do the same    pkill -9  lt name gt  pkill -SIGKILL  lt name gt    You can use this option with kill and killall  too   Read this article about controlling processes to get more informations about processes in general

[bash] kill a process in bash

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