kill-ps

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Use this to kill hanging processes that don't have a specific name,
greps for the name in the process name, and kills -9 by PID
"""

import subprocess
import re
import optparse
import sys

def runBash(cmd):
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    return p.stdout.read().strip().split("\n")

def getProcesses(name):

    command = "ps | grep " + name

    def filterPy(line):
        line = line.strip()
        return len(line) > 0 and not bool(re.search('grep|python', line))

    def processFromPS(line):
        return re.search('\d+', line).group(0)

    return map(processFromPS, filter(filterPy, runBash(command)))

def killProcesses(ps, name):

    if not len(ps):
        print "-- nothing to kill for " + name

    for p in ps:
        print("-- killing [" + name + "] process ["  + p + "]")
        print(runBash("kill -9 " + p))

def main():

    p = optparse.OptionParser()
    opts, args = p.parse_args()

    if not len(args):
        sys.stderr.write('No process name to kill given!\n')

    for f in args:
        killProcesses(getProcesses(f), f)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Put this somewhere in your path, allow executable, (chmod + x).

Usage:

kill-ps lein

I mostly use this to kill lein processes.