*2 Feb 2015*
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Sometimes you want to kill a process but you either don’t know the exact name of the executable file, or you know part of the command arguments. killall is not your friend in those situations. Here’s a quick script to grep on part of a process name or arguments and kill it.
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Full script (put it in a path included folder and change it’s permissions to executable +x):
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> ps aux \| grep \$1 \| grep -v grep \| awk '{print \$2}' \| xargs kill -9
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