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Kill all processes matching certain strings. Written by: HostGeekZ This guide is wraped for easy viewing, to see the non wraped version Click Here Have you ever wondered how to kill all processes matching certain strings, for our example we will use httpd. One very simple method is killall, such as killall -9 httpd If that doesn't work you can go through the process list and kill -9 the pids by using the following, kill -9 $(ps aux | grep -v grep | grep httpd | awk '{print $2}') Where httpd would be the string.

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