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I want to quit a certain applications on my Mac using Terminal. For example, how do I kill “Slack”? Do I need its PID number?
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I want to quit a certain applications on my Mac using Terminal. For example, how do I kill “Slack”? Do I need its PID number?
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killall Slack
works, I just tested...
– Wowfunhappy
16 hours ago
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I want to quit a certain applications on my Mac using Terminal. For example, how do I kill “Slack”? Do I need its PID number?
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I want to quit a certain applications on my Mac using Terminal. For example, how do I kill “Slack”? Do I need its PID number?
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killall Slack
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killall Slack
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killall Slack
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No, you do not need to know its PID.
You can use:
pkill Slack
Or:
killall Slack
Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill
and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page
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You can install htop
then click on the Slack process line and type k9
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I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run
ps -e | grep -i slack
To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):
PID TTY TIME CMD
649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:
kill -9 649
Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps
.
add a comment |
Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill
without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo
would target processes named foo
, but would also target processes named foobar
. This is because it uses regular expressions.
If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x
flag. For example, pkill -x foo
. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.
add a comment |
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No, you do not need to know its PID.
You can use:
pkill Slack
Or:
killall Slack
Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill
and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page
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No, you do not need to know its PID.
You can use:
pkill Slack
Or:
killall Slack
Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill
and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page
add a comment |
No, you do not need to know its PID.
You can use:
pkill Slack
Or:
killall Slack
Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill
and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page
No, you do not need to know its PID.
You can use:
pkill Slack
Or:
killall Slack
Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill
and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page
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You can install htop
then click on the Slack process line and type k9
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You can install htop
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You can install htop
then click on the Slack process line and type k9
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You can install htop
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I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run
ps -e | grep -i slack
To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):
PID TTY TIME CMD
649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:
kill -9 649
Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps
.
add a comment |
I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run
ps -e | grep -i slack
To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):
PID TTY TIME CMD
649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:
kill -9 649
Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps
.
add a comment |
I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run
ps -e | grep -i slack
To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):
PID TTY TIME CMD
649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:
kill -9 649
Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps
.
I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run
ps -e | grep -i slack
To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):
PID TTY TIME CMD
649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:
kill -9 649
Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps
.
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Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill
without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo
would target processes named foo
, but would also target processes named foobar
. This is because it uses regular expressions.
If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x
flag. For example, pkill -x foo
. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.
add a comment |
Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill
without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo
would target processes named foo
, but would also target processes named foobar
. This is because it uses regular expressions.
If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x
flag. For example, pkill -x foo
. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.
add a comment |
Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill
without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo
would target processes named foo
, but would also target processes named foobar
. This is because it uses regular expressions.
If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x
flag. For example, pkill -x foo
. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.
Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill
without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo
would target processes named foo
, but would also target processes named foobar
. This is because it uses regular expressions.
If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x
flag. For example, pkill -x foo
. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.
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killall Slack
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