Kill all commands that match a query
I often kill a bunch of processes with some command line incantation, like ps aux | grep $MY_QUERY | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill,
which as you can see, it’s pretty verbose.
I am ashamed of myself, but only recently I learned pkill has a -f flag that kills all commands
(ie. the whole thing, not only the process name) that match a certain query.
We can even pair it with -i to make it case insensitive, and -l to print the PID of the affected process.
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