Killing a process by its name
 

HI All,

Can we kill any process by its name in Linux???
I tried to find that but got no clue so i tried the following command to get those processes

ps -aux |grep java > java

now i got all the process with name java in it but now i dont know how to get that particular strings of PID out of it and kill it.

Actually I want to cron the script of killing the process after everyone hour. By it should be by name.

regards
Rabeea

Re: Killing a process by its name
 

you can write yur customised kill script to kill by name if you want. In the meanwhile this one liner shoulddo the job.

ps -ef|grep java| awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill {} \;

you can even use alternative command if you wanna to kill a process by its name.

the command is:-

pkill "process name"