I have a script running behind the screen which has a command nc -k -l 12345. Is there any workarounds I could kill this daemon without restarting the machine?
Ubuntu 14.04
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`sudo pkill nc`? – muru May 08 '15 at 07:41
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Thank you. It works. :) But it kills all the nc processes. Is it possible to find the PID of this specific command and kill that only? – Anonymous Platypus May 08 '15 at 07:46
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If that nc process was started with exactly that command, and no other nc processes have exactly that command, you can do:
sudo pkill -fx 'nc -k -l 12345'
-fmatches the entire command line-xmakes the match exact.
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