Taskkill /PID not working in GitBash

Question

I'm trying to kill a process on GitBash on Windows10 using the taskkill command. However, I get the following error:

$ taskkill /pid 13588
ERROR: Invalid argument/option - 'C:/Program Files/Git/pid'.
Type "TASKKILL /?" for usage.

it works fine on cmd. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

You have to use double slashes in this case:

taskkill //PID 13588

This is documented here: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversion
Look at the examples on this page, especially the //foobar example.

Answer 2

Use TSKILL processid

Example:

TSKILL 1234 

Answer 3

To fix this I need to kill another additional program:

taskkill //F //IM "git-bash.exe"
taskkill //F //IM "bash.exe"