Kill command

[Brendan]

On Thursday 19 July 2007, Trevor wrote:
> Tim M wrote:
> >     Ok, started typing, start not making sense.
> >
> >     Go here:   http://www.bellevuelinux.org/kill.html
> >
> >     Never give up, never surrender !
> >
> >     Greg
> >
> >
> > Well, I am not ready to give up quite yet. I went to the  site above.
> > From what I gather you need to know the PID number for a given
> > program. I founded the link to "process identification number" and got
> > blurry eyed. It didn't tell me, in a way that I could understand, how
> > you find a list of programs and the PID. I ran cat /proc/1/status and
> > got lots of information but didn't understand what it was trying to
> > tell me. For instance I didn't see any program that I have running in
> > the list. So I am still lost :)
> >
> > Tm
>
> To kill Thunderbird I would do 'ps aux | grep hunderbird'
>
> I generally like to ignore the first character when searching for a
> process as very rarely the process will start with a capital letter but
> if it does you won't find the process
>
> It should now list all the processes running that match the string
> 'hunderbird'
>
> The second column will give you the PID to issue to the kill command.
> Looking at my machine, Thunderbird has 3 processes running so I would
> issue the command 'kill' followed by the PIDs separated by a space. (ie
> kill 12345 12346 12348)

kill `pgrep hunderbird`
or even ps -ef |grep -i thunderbird
-i ignores case...