Introduction
This page is for techniques related to Linux processes and their management.
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Killing
Killing a process tree
This sometimes generates a list of processes that are not in the tree. To be safe, use pstree -p <PID> to check.
Find the root PID of the process tree then generate the command required to kill the entire tree by:
PID=362
ps xf | awk -v PID=$PID '
$1 == PID { P = $1; next }
P && /_/ { P = P " " $1; K=P }
P && !/_/ { P="" }
END { print "kill " K }'
TODO: develop another command, based on parsing pstree output?
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