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Search and Kill Process in Linux land
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Search for your Process's ID:

ps aux | grep 'your search term'

Kill it gently (assuming our id is 93735):

kill 93735

or kill it forcefully

kill -9 93735

to kill many processes matching your search term:

pkill -f 'your search term'

add the -9 switch to kill them forcefully

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