How to kill a process with 'kill' combined with 'grep'

Question

I'd like to kill a process/script with a simple command using. At the moment I do the following

ps -ef | grep myscriptname
kill 123456

But is there a way to maybe combine the 2 command together so I don't need to look and manually write the pid, something like this kill grep myscriptname?

Answer 1

You want pkill:

pkill myscriptname

On some systems there is a similar tool called killall, but be careful because on Solaris it really does kill everything!

Note that there is also pgrep which you can use to replace your ps | grep pipeline:

pgrep myscriptname

It prints the PID for you, and nothing else.

Answer 2

Another alternative is using the pidof command:

kill $(pidof processname)

Answer 3

you can try this simple trick pkill -f "my_sript_filename"

Answer 4

I use kill $(pgrep <program name>), it works.

Answer 5

Another alternative, pgrep with xargs

ps aux | pgrep gitlab | xargs kill

Answer 6

An alternative is piping to the xargs command:

ps -ef | grep myscriptname | xargs kill

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/xargs.1.html