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Created November 29, 2023 09:07
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Find processes by name and SIGTERM kill them all (when an application is hung up and cannot be closed)
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kill_app_by_pid.sh
# Usage: kill_app_by_pid.sh <name_of_application>
# https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/817-0403/eoizf/index.html
# WARNING: The –9 signal should not be used to kill certain processes, such as a database process, or an LDAP server process.
# The result is that data might be lost.
ps -u $USER -eaf | grep -i $1 | awk '{print $2}' | while read line; do kill -9 $line; done
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