For anyone who uses the command line regularly, a new tool called pkill makes killing processes significantly easier in modern releases of Mac OS and Mac OS X. Improving on the standard kill command, ...

Command line users rely on the ‘kill’ command to terminate a process as defined by the appropriate process identifier (PID). While there’s nothing wrong with targeting processes by their PID, another ...

I’m not saying Ubuntu (or Linux in general) is buggy, but things aren’t always flawless. There are times when applications and background processes freeze, hang, or choke up for whatever reason – be ...

Command Example (命令范例) pkill Signal process by name. Mostly used for stopping processes. - Kill all processes which match: pkill -9 process_name - Kill all processes which match their full command ...