Question: How to kill all processes matching a particular pattern in Linux?

Way #1

ps ax|grep [process_name_or_pattern]|awk ‘{print $1}’|xargs kill -9

What is it, tell me more?

ps ax | grep [process_name_or_pattern] – ps command piped through grep will list down all matching processes with PID in first column

awk ‘{print $1}’ – This’ll get you the value of first column i.e PID

xargs kill -9 – It’ll kill the process id printed by the above command

Way #2

pkill [process_name_or_pattern]

pkill will kill all processes matching the search text. If you’d like to know the process names that match the above command, use pgrep -l [process_name_or_pattern]

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