How to Give Arguments to Kill via Pipe

How to give arguments to kill via pipe

kill $(ps -e | grep dmn | awk '{print $1}')

Killing linux process by piping the id

Try the backtick operator for evaluating a sub-command

kill -s SIGINT `pgrep -f "python myscript.py"`

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How to pass command output as multiple arguments to another command

You can use xargs:

grep 'pattern' input | xargs -I% cp "%" "%.bac"

Find and kill a process in one line using bash and regex

In bash, you should be able to do:

kill $(ps aux | grep '[p]ython csp_build.py' | awk '{print $2}')

Details on its workings are as follows:

• The ps gives you the list of all the processes.
• The grep filters that based on your search string, [p] is a trick to stop you picking up the actual grep process itself.
• The awk just gives you the second field of each line, which is the PID.
• The $(x) construct means to execute x then take its output and put it on the command line. The output of that ps pipeline inside that construct above is the list of process IDs so you end up with a command like kill 1234 1122 7654.

Here's a transcript showing it in action:

pax> sleep 3600 &
[1] 2225
pax> sleep 3600 &
[2] 2226
pax> sleep 3600 &
[3] 2227
pax> sleep 3600 &
[4] 2228
pax> sleep 3600 &
[5] 2229
pax> kill $(ps aux | grep '[s]leep' | awk '{print $2}')
[5]+  Terminated              sleep 3600
[1]   Terminated              sleep 3600
[2]   Terminated              sleep 3600
[3]-  Terminated              sleep 3600
[4]+  Terminated              sleep 3600

and you can see it terminating all the sleepers.

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Explaining the grep '[p]ython csp_build.py' bit in a bit more detail:

When you do sleep 3600 & followed by ps -ef | grep sleep, you tend to get two processes with sleep in it, the sleep 3600 and the grep sleep (because they both have sleep in them, that's not rocket science).

However, ps -ef | grep '[s]leep' won't create a process with sleep in it, it instead creates grep '[s]leep' and here's the tricky bit: the grep doesn't find it because it's looking for the regular expression "any character from the character class [s] (which is s) followed by leep.

In other words, it's looking for sleep but the grep process is grep '[s]leep' which doesn't have sleep in it.

When I was shown this (by someone here on SO), I immediately started using it because

• it's one less process than adding | grep -v grep; and
• it's elegant and sneaky, a rare combination :-)

How to kill all processes matching a name?

From man 1 pkill

-f     The pattern is normally only matched against the process name.
       When -f is set, the full command line is used.

Which means, for example, if we see these lines in ps aux:

apache   24268  0.0  2.6 388152 27116 ?        S    Jun13   0:10 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   24272  0.0  2.6 387944 27104 ?        S    Jun13   0:09 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   24319  0.0  2.6 387884 27316 ?        S    Jun15   0:04 /usr/sbin/httpd

We can kill them all using the pkill -f option:

pkill -f httpd

How to kill all processes with a given partial name?

Use pkill -f, which matches the pattern for any part of the command line

pkill -f my_pattern

Just in case it doesn't work, try to use this one as well:

pkill -9 -f my_pattern

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

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.

kill process with python

You can retrieve the process id (PID) given it name using pgrep command like this:

import subprocess
import signal
import os
from datetime import datetime as dt

process_name = sys.argv[1]
log_file_name = sys.argv[2]

proc = subprocess.Popen(["pgrep", process_name], stdout=subprocess.PIPE) 

# Kill process.
for pid in proc.stdout:
    os.kill(int(pid), signal.SIGTERM)
    # Check if the process that we killed is alive.
    try: 
       os.kill(int(pid), 0)
       raise Exception("""wasn't able to kill the process 
                          HINT:use signal.SIGKILL or signal.SIGABORT""")
    except OSError as ex:
       continue

# Save old logging file and create a new one.
os.system("cp {0} '{0}-dup-{1}'".format(log_file_name, dt.now()))

# Empty the logging file.
with open(log_file_name, "w") as f:
    pass

# Run the process again.
os.sytsem("<command to run the process>") 
# you can use os.exec* if you want to replace this process with the new one which i think is much better in this case.

# the os.system() or os.exec* call will failed if something go wrong like this you can check if the process is runninh again.

Hope this can help

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