Process kill

[Diametric]

Hi,

I cannot for the life of me remember the command that lists process such that you can enter in a number to kill it while the list updates.

Anyone?

Thanks!

[imachavel]

ps aux | less

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/show-al...sses-in-linux/

mine shows:


USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.1 0.0 3324 1912 ? Ss 11:58 0:01 /sbin/init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [migration/0]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [migration/1]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [kworker/0:1]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:58 0:00 [cpuset]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:58 0:00 [khelper]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:58 0:00 [netns]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [kworker/u:1]
root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [sync_supers]
root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [bdi-default]
root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:58 0:00 [kintegrityd]
root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:58 0:00 [kblockd]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:58 0:00 [ata_sff]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [khubd]
root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 11:58 0:00 [md]
root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [kworker/1:1]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:00 [khungtaskd]
root 24 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:58 0:02 [kswapd0]
root 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN 11:58 0:00 [ksmd]

[howefield]

pidof processname

[Dave_L]

I cannot for the life of me remember the command that lists process such that you can enter in a number to kill it while the list updates.

You may be thinking of "top". When "top" is running, if you type "k", you'll be prompted with "PID to kill:".

"htop" is similar, but might not be installed by default.

[Diametric]

Thanks for both of the replies, but the command I'm looking for is an interactive one. When the command is entered an updating list of processes is listed and there is an option to type in a process ID to kill a given process. Kind of like a

tail -f /var/log/logfile

But is interactive like I described.

Does that make sense?

Cheers.

[Diametric]

You may be thinking of "top". When "top" is running, if you type "k", you'll be prompted with "PID to kill:".

"htop" is similar, but might not be installed by default.

That is exactly it! Thank you so much - that was killing me.

Cheers!

[Khayyam]

... zsh can complete on 'kill'

% zstyle ':completion:*:*:kill:*:processes' list-colors '=(#b) #([0-9]#)*=0=01;31'
% kill <tab>
---- process ID
 9038 pts/2    0:00.40 -zsh
 9144 pts/2    0:00.11 vim notes.txt
 9166 pts/2    0:01.23 -zsh                         
 9394 pts/2    0:00.07 ssh host.domain.tld                                           
 9475 pts/2    0:00.00 -zsh
 9501 pts/2    0:00.05 mutt

best ... khay