Killing processes by name

[Kevin Buettner]

On Nov 14, 10:36pm, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Okay is there any way to kill a process by name? Since I've update to RH 
>   7.2 I been noticing that I had problems with mozilla or other apps. 
> Today I finally thought to check for java_vm processes. there are 
> *hundres* of them they aren't dying I don't know if that's just because 
> I have so much memory the garbage collector simply isn't clearing them 
> or what but I want them dead and I don't wont to have to type in ever 
> process number. is there a way I can just say kill all java_vm processes?

How about:

    killall -KILL java_vm

Or, if you don't have ``killall'', how about this:

    kill -KILL `ps xww | grep java_vm | perl -ne 'print((split)[0]," ")'`

Kevin