How to kill Linux process by pattern of process name

published Aug 15, 2015 02:00 by admin ( last modified Aug 15, 2015 02:00 )

Don't point pkill at anything you do not have the intention to kill.
Use

pgrep -f pattern

first, so you know what you are killing.

Use pkill -f, which matches the pattern for any part of the command line

pkill -f my_pattern