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I need to search for a certain process and kill that process. I wrote a command like this:
ps -e | grep dmn | awk '{print $1}' | kill Where the process name is dmn. But it is not working. How can I find processes by name and kill them.
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killall Command – kill the processes by name. By default, it will send a TERM signal. The killall command can kill multiple processes with a single command. If more than one process runs with that name, all of them will be killed.
The kill -9 command sends a SIGKILL signal indicating to a service to shut down immediately. An unresponsive program will ignore a kill command, but it will shut down whenever a kill -9 command is issued. Use this command with caution. It bypasses the standard shutdown routine so any unsaved data will be lost.
The | command is called a pipe. It is used to pipe, or transfer, the standard output from the command on its left into the standard input of the command on its right. # First, echo "Hello World" will send Hello World to the standard output.
kill $(ps -e | grep dmn | awk '{print $1}') In case there are multiple processes that you want to remove you can use this:
ps -efw | grep dmn | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill Note: You need to remove grep process itself from the output, that's why grep -v grep is used.
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