Stop Adobe Creative Cloud daemons (background processes) in their tracks

kill-adobe-daemons.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-s" ] || [ "$1" = "--show" ]; then
    show=true
else
    show=false
fi

if $show || [ "$1" = "-v" ] || [ "$1" = "--verbose" ]; then
    verbose=true
else
    verbose=false
fi

kill_list=""

for i in $(pgrep -i adobe); do
    if $verbose; then
        echo -n "PID $i -- "
        ps -p "$i" -o command $($show || echo -c) | awk 'ORS=""; NR==2'
    fi

    ps -p "$i" -o command | awk 'NR==2' | grep -E '^/Applications/Adobe XD/Adobe XD\.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe XD$' > /dev/null

    if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then
        $verbose && echo " -- KILL"
        kill_list="$kill_list $i"
    else
        $verbose && echo " -- KEEP ALIVE"
    fi
done

if [ -z "$kill_list" ] ; then
    $verbose && echo "Nothing to kill"
else
    if $verbose; then
        echo "KILL_LIST = $kill_list"
        set -x
    fi
    $show || sudo kill -TERM $kill_list
fi

Here's a really great kill-apps helper from sunknudsen/privacy-guides that can be added to .zshrc:

# Kill apps that match string
function kill-apps() {
  IFS=$'\n'
  red=$(tput setaf 1)
  normal=$(tput sgr0)
  if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then
    printf "%s\n" "Usage: kill-apps string"
    return 0
  fi
  printf "%s\n" "Finding apps that match “$1”…"
  sleep 1
  processes=($(pgrep -afil "$1"))
  if [ ${#processes[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
    printf "%s\n" "No apps found"
    return 0
  else
    printf "%s\n" "${processes[@]}"
    printf "$red%s$normal" "Kill found apps (y or n)? "
    read -r answer
    if [ "$answer" = "y" ]; then
      printf "%s\n" "Killing found apps…"
      sleep 1
      for process in "${processes[@]}"; do
        echo $process | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo kill 2>&1 | grep -v "No such process"
      done
      printf "%s\n" "Done"
      return 0
    fi
  fi
}

paste above script into ~/.zshrc and then run source ~/.zshrc. Then you can just use commands like kill-apps adobe to kill all adobe related stuff.