Comments on: Kill is Your Friend

By: recluze

recluze — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:44:30 +0000

Lol,

That was really funny. You can also get the “Force Quit” applet on your panel… I love just clicking to kill with it :)

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:22:25 +0000

W3RD!

By: Mahalie

Mahalie — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:57:33 +0000

If by sick you mean swooning to the point of nausea with complete joy and enthusiasm then thanks!

By: dC

dC — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:13:41 +0000

You Ubuntu users make me fucking sick.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:57:11 +0000

I’m really lame. To kill Firefox, I use pkill firefox. If I can’t guess it that way, I use htop to find the process (or just hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc in KDE) and then use killall firefox-bin, or whatever it is.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:28:52 +0000

I never knew you could kill by name like that. Sure is a hassle to open up top and look around for PIDs. I bet you could simply script that command to something similar to kill so you could type

killname (or something) evolution

instead of

pgrep evolution | xargs kill

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:26:52 +0000

It can be useful to pair the kill command with the pgrep command (which determines the PID of a process).

For example, I find that the email reader evolution often crashes, leaving behind 2 or 3 processes that prevent a new version of evolution from being started. In this case I use the command,
pgrep evolution | xargs kill

This finds the pid of any processes with “evolution” in the name, then pipes this to “kill” using the xargs command, thus killing all those processes.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:47:09 +0000

kill -9 PID….sounds ominous…will definitely look into it, or should I just key it in and see what happens, heheh?

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:07:50 +0000

have you found

kill -9 PID

yet?

you might also want to look at

man kill

and

man killall

at the prompt