Is there a Unix-type command to kill all processes with a certain name?
Solution 1
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/742/kill-the-undesired-unix-processes-in-one-go/ has a nice write up of the usual answer for generic unix: pipe ps to grep, then to awk, then to xargs.
As another poster mentioned, beware any glib answer that throws around "killall", since it has a radically different purpose on AIX and Solaris (at least) than it does on Linux. Running killall as root on Solaris is a "resume generating event".
Solution 2
Outside of the above pkill and killall answers, you can do the following, assuming you want to kill process "foo"
ps -ef | grep [f]oo | awk {'print $1'} | xargs kill
The grep [f]oo
means that grep will not match the grep command itself, so it will just kill processes named "foo".
Solution 3
If you are running a linux machine, the killall command seems to be what you are looking for.
Solution 4
pkill
and killall
are variants of this.
# pkill vim
# killall vim
Both has extended documentation in their respective man-pages.
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user114055 almost 2 years
I run a script called "delayed_job" for a Ruby on Rails application. One of the options is to run this proc with a separate monitor proc. When the main proc dies, the monitor will spawn a new one. I can also run multiple processes. Each will have its own associated monitor process.
The script gives a way to kill the main processes, but not the monitor processes. I want to kill all of them.
A command of:
ps -ef|grep delayed
yields:
42011 29423 1 0 Sep25 ? 00:00:02 delayed_job.0_monitor 42011 29428 1 0 Sep25 ? 00:00:02 delayed_job.1_monitor 42011 29434 1 0 Sep25 ? 00:00:02 delayed_job.2_monitor 42011 29437 1 0 Sep25 ? 00:00:01 delayed_job.3_monitor 42011 23359 1 10 Oct19 ? 03:12:49 delayed_job.0 42011 8607 1 5 Oct19 ? 00:58:42 delayed_job.3 42011 21442 1 44 12:31 ? 01:02:03 delayed_job.2 42011 23092 1 4 14:18 ? 00:01:22 delayed_job.1 42011 23861 23763 0 14:51 pts/5 00:00:00 grep delayed
I want to kill all of them, or at least the monitors. How can I kill these (with the exception of the grep command itself)?
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Denny Weinberg over 7 yearsI needed to use $2 on my Windows 10 bash