The following is a handy little script I wrote which politely asks a collection of matching processes to exit. After a second the process is forcibly killed.
This command is designed as a drop-in replacement for the slightly cryptic pgrep and pkill commands.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 | zap() { # Usage: zap [SIGNAL|-NUMERIC|shoot] <fgrep> SIGNAL='' case "$1" in shoot|-0) SIGNAL='SHOOT';; term|-15) SIGNAL='TERM';; kill|-9) SIGNAL='KILL';; hup|-1) SIGNAL='HUP';; esac if [ "$SIGNAL" != '' ]; then shift else SIGNAL='SHOOT' fi PROCS=`ps ax -eo pid,comm | fgrep "$1"` MODE=0 for DATA in $PROCS; do if [ "$MODE" -eq 0 ]; then PID="$DATA" MODE=1 else CMD="$DATA" MODE=0 if [ "$SIGNAL" == 'SHOOT' ]; then echo -n "Shooting #$PID - $CMD..." kill $PID sleep 1 kill -9 $PID echo "Shot" else echo -n "Killing #$PID - $CMD..." kill $SIGNAL $PID echo "Killed" fi fi done } |
To install it simply dump the above text inside your existing ~/.bashrc file.
Usage is quite simple:
To politely kill all processes (then force-killing if it still does not die) containing the string ‘gnome’:
1 | zap gnome |
To just kill-forcefully:
1 | zap -9 gnome |