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Fuzzy Kill script. Use `fzf` to locate a process to kill.
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fzkill
#!/bin/sh
# Fuzzy find and kill a process. Supports signal codes (-9 etc.)
set -e
pid="$(ps -ef | fzf | awk '{ print $2}')"
kill $@ ${pid}
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igilham commented Jul 23, 2021

fzf pops up a selection dialog with find-as-you-type, so it's much quicker than scrolling the terminal or grepping, then copy-pasting the pid into the kill command.

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