Kill Process By It's Name

[Michael42]

Hello,

I need to kill the mozilla-bin process from time to time while doing testing. My problem is I need to do it by it's name (mozilla-bin) rather than it's PID.

How can I to do this?

Thanks very much,

Michael42

 

[marsd]

Try something like:
ps -aux | grep "mozilla-bin" | awk ' {print $2}' | xargs kill -kill

 

[amitatharkar]

Hi Michael,
try
pkill -9 mozilla-bin
Be carefull this command will kill all processes that contains mozilla-bin

 

[timsr]

Killall mozilla-bin will issue a kill and usually clean up processes.

 

[Michael42]

Great suggestions.

Thanks very much!

 

[xutopia]

you have to love how linux allows you so many ways of doing the same thing all with different powerful side features attached to them!

Gary

http://www.xutopia.com

Haran
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