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PKill - Control Processes by Name | Online Free DevTools by Hexmos

Control processes by name with PKill. Quickly terminate or signal processes using their name or command line. Free online tool, no registration required.

pkill

Signal process by name. Mostly used for stopping processes. More information: https://www.manned.org/pkill.

  • Kill all processes which match:

pkill "{{process_name}}"

  • Kill all processes which match their full command instead of just the process name:

pkill {{[-f|--full]}} "{{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 {{[-o|--oldest]}} "{{firefox}}"

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