pkill

Signal process by name. Mostly used for stopping processes. More information: <https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/pkill.1.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/pkill.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install procps
Ubuntu
apt-get install procps
Alpine
apk add procps
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S procps-ng
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install procps
CentOS
yum install procps-ng
Fedora
dnf install procps-ng
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install procps
Raspbian
apt-get install procps
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/pkill pkill powered by Commando

Signal process by name. Mostly used for stopping processes. More information: <https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/pkill.1.html>.

  • Kill all processes which match:
    pkill "process_name"
  • Kill all processes which match their full command instead of just the process name:
    pkill -f "command_name"
  • Force kill matching processes (can't be blocked):
    pkill -9 "process_name"
  • Send SIGUSR1 signal to processes which match:
    pkill -USR1 "process_name"
  • Kill the main `firefox` process to close the browser:
    pkill --oldest "firefox"

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