grep - How to kill all process with given name? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

grep - How to kill all process with given name? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

The problem is that ps -A | grep <application_name> | xargs -n1 returns output like this

19440  ?  00:00:11  <application_name>  21630  ?  00:00:00  <application_name>  22694  ?  00:00:00  <application_name>  

You can use awk to a get first a column of ps output.

ps -A | grep <application_name> | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n1  

Will return list of PIDs

19440  21630  22694  

And adding kill -9 $1 you have a command which kills all PIDs

ps -A | grep <application_name> | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9 $1  

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