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Killing processes on MacOS
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In MacOS here are two ways to kill processes in one hit. I'll use Google Drive as an example.

List process IDs (optional, useful to query beforehand or verify afterwards):

ps aux | grep "Google Drive" | awk '{print $2}'

Kill:

ps aux | grep "Google Drive" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

-or-

sudo killall -9 "Google Drive"

The above two perform the same task.

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