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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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 resist

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Also please refresh my memory on how to find the process ID

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

top for Ubuntu at least will show you the top processes, I think sorted by averaged CPU usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Pidof

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

htop or any process monitor will tell you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

You 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I use ps -aux | grep $EXECUTABLE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Similarly, $$ is the current PID, $PPID is the parent PID. (Bash)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So 'kill -9 $$' is just suicide?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

With 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You can type seppuku for that