Bash function that lets you interactively kill arbitrary process with pattern matching (See the comment below for an example usage)

killProcess.bash

killProcess() {
    if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
        echo "Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} [pattern for process name]"
        return
    fi

    local procs=() selected=
    case "$( uname )" in
        Darwin*|CYGWIN*) mapfile -t procs < <( pgrep -fil "${1}" ) ;;
        *) mapfile -t procs < <( pgrep -fl "${1}" ) ;;
    esac
    selected=$( selectFromArray procs )

    if [ "${selected}" ]; then
        local ans tmp pid
        read -ra tmp <<< "${selected}"
        printf "\e[1;36m${tmp[@]}\e[0m\n"
        pid=${tmp[0]}
        while :; do
            read -rn 1 -p "Kill it? (Y/y/n/?) :" ans
            case "$ans" in
                Y) echo; kill -9 "${pid}"; return ;;
                y) echo; kill "${pid}"; return ;;
                n) echo; return ;;
                ?) printf "\nType \e[4;33m%s\e[0m for normal kill, \e[4;33m%s\e[0m for force kill, \e[4;33m%s\e[0m for abort\n" \
                    "y" "Y" "n"
                    ;;
            esac
        done
    fi
}

Example

IMPORTANT : This function uses selectFromArray function
Make sure you copy it too when you copy this function

### Just call the function without argument to see simple usage guide
$ killProcess
Usage: killProcess [pattern for process name]

### Provide pattern for the process to kill
### I assume I want to kill a vim process not responding for some reason.
$ killProcess vim
1) QUIT!
2) 69188 vim not.responding.txt
3) 69189 vim working.txt
#? 2
69188 vim not.responding.txt
Kill it? (Y/y/n/?) :?
Type y for normal kill, Y for force kill, n for abort
Kill it? (Y/y/n/?) :y

### When there are multiple processes with the pattern you have provided,
### the function will let you choose the specific process you want to kill.
### Now you type the number for the process and press Enter (In this example, 2)
### And it will ask you whether or how to kill the process.
### Type y for normal kill (This might not kill some busy processes)
### Type Y for force kill (Mostly will kill any process)
### Type n for abort
### Type ? for help