How to kill all processes matching a name?
From man 1 pkill
-f The pattern is normally only matched against the process name. When -f is set, the full command line is used.Which means, for example, if we see these lines in ps aux:
apache 24268 0.0 2.6 388152 27116 ? S Jun13 0:10 /usr/sbin/httpdapache 24272 0.0 2.6 387944 27104 ? S Jun13 0:09 /usr/sbin/httpdapache 24319 0.0 2.6 387884 27316 ? S Jun15 0:04 /usr/sbin/httpdWe can kill them all using the pkill -f option:
pkill -f httpd
ps aux | grep -ie amarok | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 xargs(1): xargs -- construct argument list(s) and execute utility. Helpful when you want to pipe in arguments to something like kill or ls or so on.