Comments on: Kill Linux Processes Easier with pkill

By: pilip

pilip — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:38:43 +0000

just for fun:
ps | grep swiftfox | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 1

By: leon.c

leon.c — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:14:29 +0000

If you just want to get rid of the user I recommend this:
http://blog.ooz.ie/2008/05/bas.....id-of.html

By: Jguy

Jguy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:09:33 +0000

pkill does a kill -15 this won’t kill everything. For example to do a kill -9 on the bash session your in do:

pkill -9 bash -s 0

If you do just a:

pkill bash -s 0

it won’t work kill -15 (the default for pkill) won’t kill bash.

Type kill -l for a full list of kill signals.

By: Bindu Madhavi

Bindu Madhavi — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:23:52 +0000

For killing the process in linux , we are using the CMD like pkill & we can use the CMD like
kill -9 also.Then what is the difference between these two syntax,s is it same or there is some difference.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:39:46 +0000

In addition to Gustav Dahl’s comment, I’d like to note that by default on KDE you can launch xkill by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Esc. Makes killing a program take

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:23:21 +0000

What about…
killall swiftfox

By: Gustav Dahl

Gustav Dahl — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:07:29 +0000

Or if you still got a GUI – maybe not working, but it is still there – you can use xkill, and then click on the window to kill the program

By: Mike W

Mike W — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:31:48 +0000

This is similar to the more popular killall command. Use the -r switch to match a regex and -i for interactive usage to err on the safe side.

Also, when using “ps ax | grep” surround the first letter of your regex with []s (square brackets) to keep from matching the grep process. ie, “ps ax | grep [m]y” will match mysql and mythbackend but not the “grep my” process.