Killing Processes
June 29th, 2008 by Paul Maunders
Previously if I had wanted to kill a bulk list of mysql processes I would have done something like:
ps auxww | grep ^mysql | awk '{print $2}' | xarg kill -9
Today I discovered two really handy commands that make listing and killing processes a lot easier, pkill and pgrep.
You can achieve the same result as above with:
pkill -9 -u mysql mysql
This will kill all processes owned by the mysql user that have mysql in their name.
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