macosshellkill-process

How to kill all processes with the same name using OS X Terminal

Getting the following output from running this:

ps aux | grep Python

Output:

user_name  84487   0.0  0.0        0      0   ??  Z    12:15PM   0:00.00 (Python)
user_name  84535   0.0  0.0        0      0   ??  Z    12:16PM   0:00.00 (Python)

I want to terminate all Python processes currently running on a machine....

Solution

  • use pkill, with the -f option.

    pkill -f python

    If you don't have pkill pre-installed (some osx's don't...), try proctools.