Friday, July 15, 2016

Killing lots of linux processes from the command line

I run a lot of bash scripts from the crontab to automate database tasks. Sometimes my bash scrips get carried away and don't finish. When this happens I need to kill them. I use pkill.

How to kill processes from the command line that match a patters:

pkill -f my_pattern
Thank you to this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8987037/how-to-kill-all-processes-with-a-given-partial-name

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