Kill Process Ubuntu 16.04

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I wish to use command line ( bash ) to find and kill a process. How do I search for a known (VLC ) process and how do I kill it ?

Guy

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '17 at 14:22

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Fist type

pidof vlc

after

kill -9  pid

or

pkill pid

answered Jun 16 '17 at 14:22

Gowthaman D

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 16 '17 at 14:34

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As an alternative to other suggestions you can use xkill, in a terminal type xkill then click on your desired window (VLC, or any other). it will kill it.

You can also combine kill and pidof:

kill $(pidof -s vlc)

or use killall:

killall vlc

which kill all instances.

edited Jun 16 '17 at 14:34

terdon

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answered Jun 16 '17 at 14:16

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 16 '17 at 14:09

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Find the process with pgrep, kill it with pkill. Read man pgrep (the same man page documents pkill)

answered Jun 16 '17 at 14:09

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Kill Process Ubuntu 16.04

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