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This page is for techniques related to Linux processes and their management.

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Killing

Killing a process tree

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 }'

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