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Jason Swett
Asked: 2010-11-02 09:08:26 +0800 CST

I want to find something and kill it

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I keep running these two commands over and over:

$ ps aux | grep php | grep -v grep
www-data  3663  100 14.8 328620 304900 ?       R    12:56   0:54 php /home/jason/projects/mcif/./symfony import:process --id=91
jason@gob:~/projects/mcif$ sudo kill 3663

Is there a quick and easy way to just grab the pid and kill that? The closest I've come is this:

$ ps aux | grep php | egrep -o ' [0-9]+ ' | head -n1
 3836

But I don't know how to pipe that through kill.

linux kill ps

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    pkill will do what you're asking for here.

    Before you execute a pkill, try a pgrep first to make sure you're matching what you expect to be.

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  2. You can also use "killall", which takes the name of a process and kills it. It takes the same args as kill.

    You'd use "killall symfony" for your example.

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  4. I am using zap on OpenBSD (it is not on the base system).

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