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Created July 22, 2010 19:20
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murder processes matching a pattern
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murder.sh
# sh function to murder all running processes matching a pattern
# thanks 3n: http://twitter.com/3n/status/19113206105
murder () {
ps | grep $1 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9
}
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defunkt commented Jul 22, 2010

Don't ever sudo.

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