How to kill libreoffice from command line

Question

I am using Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS 64 bit. My LibreOffice suite (especially Writer) freezes.

How can I kill LibreOffice and Can I kill only the writer? (not the Calc,Impress,..)

I tried to search for the executable process at System Monitor and command line (ps) but didn't find it.

EDIT: I want something like this:

pkill -9 writer

I need some kind of minified command.

Answer 1

First search for open libreoffice files:

ps aux | grep libre

For example the output of mine is:

hadi  21426  0.1  0.0 205328  3468 ?        Sl   14:17   0:00 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash --writer
hadi  21445  9.8  0.7 1269272 179872 ?      Sl   14:17   0:01 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin --writer --splash-pipe=6

then

sudo kill -9 ID

the ID is the second number for (soffice.bin) not for oosplash

so in my example:

sudo kill -9 21445

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You need professional Ok:

ps aux | grep -i office | awk {'print $2'} | xargs kill -9

hope this is professional in your evaluation!!

or more minified command

kill -9 `pgrep -lf soffice.bin | awk {'print $1'}`

or more minified minified minified command

pkill soffice.bin

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EDIT:

All libreoffice open files take the same PID, for that you can't just kill writer and keep impess for example.

And to prove my point of view the recovery tool in office is unique for all files. What i mean if you close a writer in imporper way and then open an impress for example then impress will request you to recovery the writer file and it did so and this proves my answer

Answer 2

You should try:

killall soffice.bin

Answer 3

use ps -e to list all processes running (not just those spawned by your current terminal). You can then search for the name you are looking for (Perhaps 'writer' or 'Libre'). If you know exactly the name you're looking for you could use ps -e | grep writer to give you the results for that process only.

You should see a number which is the process id (PID). To kill the process, enter kill x where x is the PID of the process. You should get a message saying something along the lines of killed 1 process. If the process is still running, try kill -KILL x to force the program to quit.

Answer 4

Using killall

I usually just get away with killing oosplash

killall oosplash

or soffice.bin

killall soffice.bin

oosplash shows up higher in the pstree -p.

Using pstree

This function can be placed in your .bashrc file as a shortcut command. It searches the output of pstree -p for the PID of your search term.

piddler(){
    searchTerm=$1
    echo "Searching for ${searchTerm} processes:" 
    pstree -p | grep -oE "([a-zA-Z.-])*${searchTerm}([a-zA-Z.-])*\([0-9]{3,7}\)" | grep -oE "[a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z.-])*\([0-9]{3,7}\)"
}

You can use it to find a system process like this:

piddler office

It'll output something like this:

Searching for office processes:
soffice.bin(8707)

Then you can kill the process with:

kill -9 8707

Answer 5

In a makefile

In a makefile, error messages can be avoided with either:

-killall -q oosplash

or

-@killall oosplash

The characters in front of the killall command do the trick.

However, even more gracefully would be:

-@wmctrl -c LibreOffice

or, even safer:

-@wmctrl -c filename

Answer 6

I had this problem, when I opened second document in LO Writer. I was not able to close not only LO, but anything, even UBUNTU. A simple, not ideal solution was:

• Open Terninal
• shutdown

When I opened the UBUNTU and LO again, it asked me, if I want to save the last document before the crash. My answer was (to be careful) no. Then I had no problem.

Answer 7

Usung killall -e

As Thomas Nyman said in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/91540/382418

killall somewhat safer to use compared to pkill

Therefore i use: killall -e soffice.bin using (kUbuntu 20.4)

The -e, --exact option can be specified to also require exact matches for names longer than 15 characters.