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I_like_cats@lemmy.one
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It’s easy. Just open up a terminal and type

kill $PID

(Replace the $PID with the process id of the process) if you don’t know the process id you can do

killall process_name

If these don’t work you can add a -9 to banish them and give them no chance to resist

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SoonaPaana@lemmy.world
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Also please refresh my memory on how to find the process ID

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I_like_cats@lemmy.one
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You can do

ps aux | grep -i <part of process name>

and the PID is in the second column of the output. However for this use case I recommend a process manager like htop or btop

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assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
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I use ps -aux | grep $EXECUTABLE

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Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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htop or any process monitor will tell you.

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gayhitler420@lemm.ee
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Pidof

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Krzd@lemmy.world
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top for Ubuntu at least will show you the top processes, I think sorted by averaged CPU usage.

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unalivejoy@lemm.ee
5 points

Similarly, $$ is the current PID, $PPID is the parent PID. (Bash)

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HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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So ‘kill -9 $$’ is just suicide?

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unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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With suicide, you have a chance to get your affairs in order. kill -9 $$ is hiring an assassin to kill you and not tell you when it will happen. It happens suddenly without warning.

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joulethief@compuverse.uk
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You can type seppuku for that

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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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You probably want to get on the habit of using pkill instead of killall in case you’re ever on a different system. You could have a surprise.

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