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It's easy. Just open up a terminal and type
kill $PID
(Replace the $PID with the process id of the process) if you don't know the process id you can do
killall process_name
If these don't work you can add a
-9
to banish them and give them no chance to resist29 0 ReplyAlso please refresh my memory on how to find the process ID
5 0 ReplyYou can do
ps aux | grep -i <part of process name>
and the PID is in the second column of the output. However for this use case I recommend a process manager like htop or btop
11 0 ReplyI use
ps -aux | grep $EXECUTABLE
5 0 Replyhtop or any process monitor will tell you.
2 0 ReplyPidof
1 0 Replytop for Ubuntu at least will show you the top processes, I think sorted by averaged CPU usage.
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Similarly,
$$
is the current PID,$PPID
is the parent PID. (Bash)5 0 ReplySo 'kill -9 $$' is just suicide?
3 0 ReplyWith suicide, you have a chance to get your affairs in order.
kill -9 $$
is hiring an assassin to kill you and not tell you when it will happen. It happens suddenly without warning.5 0 ReplyYou can type
seppuku
for that3 0 Reply
You probably want to get on the habit of using pkill instead of killall in case you're ever on a different system. You could have a surprise.
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