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Is there anything similar to MS Windows' command-line tool taskkill for Ubuntu's command line?

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  • Command-line's taskkill? What is that?
    – muru
    Feb 12, 2016 at 21:05
  • @muru In windows you use taskkill in cmd to close the task that you want
    – I and F
    Feb 12, 2016 at 21:08

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Yes! Linux has killall. Try killall firefox.

But my favorite is command line task manager htop - run that, press F5 for process tree view and kill necessary process.

Well, actually process killing is bad. You have to have pretty good reason to do that. Try to find source of problem.

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