Kill a process by name

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Re: Kill a process by name by xorl (Deacon) on Jan 31, 2005 at 20:31 UTC
Check out How do i kill a process on a remote win32 machine. I would highly recommend checking out Win32::Process Use that to create your process and you'll have the pid to kill it. If you're on linux get the pid when you fork. That's how I do it. Others might have better ideas.	[reply]
Re: Kill a process by name by punkish (Priest) on Jan 31, 2005 at 21:32 UTC
Download the freeware PSTools from sysinternals website at http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml, use it to get the PID (the pslist utility does that for you) of the process you want to kill, then just run the pskill command.	[reply]
Re: Kill a process by name by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 31, 2005 at 22:31 UTC
If you have a reasonably recent version of Win that has the `tasklist` utitlity, then the following one-liner will do the job. CAUTION: As presented, it will kill all copies of programs which match the name supplied on the commandline. perl -le"kill 9,(split' ')[1]for grep/^$ARGV[0]$/i,split$/,`tasklist`" + taskname [download] Examine what is said, not who speaks. Silence betokens consent. Love the truth but pardon error.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Kill a process by name by hsinclai (Deacon) on Jan 31, 2005 at 21:29 UTC
You could use pslist and pskill, two standalone programs that work very well, and can be used also when you're not in the middle of a Perl script - they are mentioned here Also gnu.org has Windows ports of common Unix utilites (no need to install cygwin or other libraries - they're statically built) such as kill, ls, sed, grep, etc etc .. using these you can do lots more from the command line in Windows. Sorry I can't find the link, but if you search the gnu.org site you'll find a package of Windows ports in one of the Software sections .. I remember it was well hidden though.. Update: Here is the link for the GNU ports (it wasn't on gnu/fsf, it's on SF) UnxUtils	[reply]
Re: Kill a process by name by jbrugger (Parson) on Jan 31, 2005 at 20:28 UTC
You seem to run a unix like system since you're talking about the PID. Indeed use `ps aux \| grep processname` under windows you could do the same using cygwin i think, and there is a 'kill' command for windows (external program something to be found here).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Kill a process by name by osunderdog (Deacon) on Jan 31, 2005 at 20:06 UTC
~~Knowing what Operating System you are on would be a big help.~~ ~~If you're on Linux, `killall` might work for you.~~ UPDATE: My mistake. He's looking for a windows command. *"Look, Shiny Things!"* is not a better business strategy than compatibility and reuse. 20050201 Edit by Corion: Changed title from 'Re: kill'	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Kill a process by name by ww (Archbishop) on Jan 31, 2005 at 20:21 UTC
update: Should not have been... "written w/o access to man," but think you may want ps -A \|grep name even ps -A should give you the pid associated with the name under nx... but no clue how to make that work on windows.	[reply]