Looking for code to kill a process

[Miykel]

G'Day; I've been looking for a line of code which shows all running programs in the terminal and allows you to kill one by using the number on the left, I think it starts with "cp".
Regards Miykel

[HermanAB]

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[wallaroo]

To list all processes, their 'pid' and their owners ...

ps -eaf

To kill one of your processes ...

kill -9 'pid'

To kill processes not owned by you ...

sudo kill -9 'pid'

[aura7]

Another method...

ps -e | grep <name of the process>
sudo killall <name of the process>

if the first command does not return anything then you don't have that process running, hence no need to kill it.

if it does not works..... then

sudo kill -9 pid

is the best alternate

[Miykel]

Thanks once again guys; told you it started with cp..........not...........lol.

Many Thanks Miykel