On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 07:00:37AM +0100, 'highskywhy@yahoo.de' highskywhy@yahoo.de [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> hello stupid question again from sophie how to kill a task
> you cannot say killall -9 vivaldi but u must say killall -9 vivaldi-bin
> how to kill chromium?
>
> killall -9 chromium does not work and killall -9 chromium-browser does
> not work.
>
> we do it now in the bad way
> we do top
> and then we kill task by task with kill 1234 kill 4543 and so on and so
> we kill every tab
Using kill has to be used with the PID (Process ID) of the task.
The same for kill -9. To use the name of the process you use pkill, for
example,
pkill chrom (even if you don't have the full name, it should work, but
chrome usually opens up a bunch of PIDs.
I have a one line script that looks for the processes and kills them.
It's not elegant but works.
pgrep chrome|xargs kill -9
The pgrep gets the PID, then xargs uses that result to do something else,
in this case, kill -9.
Anyway, if you're killing a process by name, use pkill, not kill.
To get a PID, you can use pgrep rather than running top, though either one
works.
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Scott Robbins
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