pkill handles the "every process containing the word <word>" part natively without creating more pipes or processes. See the -f option for full process name searching to eliminate the need for pgrep.

The kill command is a very simple wrapper to the kill system call, which knows only about process IDs (PIDs). pkill and killall are also wrappers to the kill system call, (actually, to the libc library which …

The same auto-completion will be done with pgrep/pkill. Something I commonly do is pkill plug<tab> to kill the flash plugin for firefox when I know that I don't have anything I want to use for a while but still …

Sep 20, 2017 · pkill only signals all processes that match the criteria given on the command line. Sometimes processes get stuck and are unable to accomplish the request. kill -9 forces the request …

If you judge pkill -f PATTERN a bit too dangerous, I wrote ezkill a bash script that prompt you to choose which processes amongst those that match the PATTERN you want to kill.

Apr 22, 2016 · There are two very neat commands pgrep and pkill that allow entering search term or part of the command name , and it will either provide the PID (s) of the process or (in case of pkill) kill that …

Apr 24, 2023 · pkill -xf 'command' Run it without sudo to attempt to only kill matched processes "kill-able" by the invoking user or with sudo to attempt to kill all matched processes.

The pgrep and pkill utilities were introduced in Sun's Solaris 7 and, as g33klord noted, they take a pattern as argument which is matched against the names of running processes. While pgrep merely …

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