Super easy
Sudo rm -rf /*
41 0 ReplyI thought that removes the French language pack?
28 0 ReplyOui
12 0 Replyyeah it probably does
8 0 ReplyNo, that's rm -fr /*
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Uninterruptible sleep makes this harder than it looks
29 0 ReplyIt's easy. Just open up a terminal and type
kill $PID
(Replace the $PID with the process id of the process) if you don't know the process id you can do
killall process_name
If these don't work you can add a
-9
to banish them and give them no chance to resist26 0 ReplyAlso please refresh my memory on how to find the process ID
5 0 ReplyYou can do
ps aux | grep -i
and the PID is in the second column of the output. However for this use case I recommend a process manager like htop or btop
11 0 ReplyI use
ps -aux | grep $EXECUTABLE
5 0 Replyhtop or any process monitor will tell you.
2 0 Replytop for Ubuntu at least will show you the top processes, I think sorted by averaged CPU usage.
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You probably want to get on the habit of using pkill instead of killall in case you're ever on a different system. You could have a surprise.
4 0 ReplySimilarly,
$$
is the current PID,$PPID
is the parent PID. (Bash)4 0 ReplySo 'kill -9 $$' is just suicide?
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Kid named process:
18 0 ReplyI remember that kid! She was friends with that boy named Sue, right? Both of them always hanging out with little Bobby tables?
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xkill (assuming GUI and not headless/remote)
xkill lets you click on any X application, at which point it will close the X server connection. In most cases the client application will self-terminate at the loss of the X connection. It's wonderfully straightforward.
17 0 ReplyTrue, xkill is super easy to use. Who needs a task manager, if you can just click on the program you want to close.
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KWin has this shortcut (Ctrl + Win + Esc) that turns your cursor into a skull that kills the windows you click on
13 0 ReplyFor me its Ctrl+Alt+Esc that does it, Ctrl+Meta+Esc just highlights where my mouse cursor is.
4 0 ReplyCould be a distro related difference ^^
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Does it work on Wayland?
3 0 ReplyYes, in Wayland it's built into kwin.
3 0 ReplyIt does work for me at least
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pkill
6 0 Replypkill
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4 0 Replyimmediately subscribed lol
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I usually just scream into my keyboard
4 0 ReplyJust open htop, find the process you wish to kill. Press F9,9,enter.
Done task killed
4 0 Replyps -e | grep app kill id
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pkill
Or what I prefer:
pkill -f
3 0 Replyat least on GNOME you can just open the system monitor and use it like task manager
2 0 Replyhtop is how I usually send signals. TUIs are fun!
2 0 ReplyUh, I'm not a cool terminal god, I just know how to use vim, so xkill is my way.
1 0 ReplyI use the terminal on a daily basis. My job involves writing software for terminals.
Ctrl+Meta+Esc in KDE is still how I kill a misbehaving graphical app.
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sudo init 0
1 0 Replybtop
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