Comments on: Kill a Process by Process Name from Ubuntu Command Line

By: Anotherone

Anotherone — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:46:29 +0000

or ps aux | grep irssi | grep -v grep | awk ‘{print$2}’ | xargs kill -9

sameer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:46:02 +0000

i am wondering whether a kill command can be piped ot not

i tried the command
ps | grep hbuild_topic | cut -c-6 | kill to kill all the process with the name hbuild_topic i wasnt able to kill the process

tryntobegeek — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:35:01 +0000

Thanks for helping this newbie out.

Matthew Glennon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:40:21 +0000

Perfect! Just what i was looking for.

Thanks!

Kar.ma — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:53:47 +0000

Thank you! My wine was crashing, and my gnome-system-monitor couldn’t close it (under Ubuntu 8.10). I could close it with
killall -v wineserver

My CPU was quickly raising temperature, so thank you for this helpful simple short guide!

Mahmut — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:01:41 +0000

Thanks Nicholas. It is working

Nicholas — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:47:02 +0000

I just use this: killall (program name). Works fine for me.

sven — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:52:14 +0000

ps -ef | grep irssi | grep -v grep | xargs kill
would work too