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Created November 18, 2015 18:47
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Kill defunct processes
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kill_defunct.sh
# Find all parents and kill the whole process tree
ps xao pgid,ppid,pid,comm | grep defunct | awk '{print -$2}' | sort -n | uniq -d | xargs sudo kill -9
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