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0 pointssethhochberg9y ago0 comments

iTerm's killer feature for me is the special paste modes - it is trivially easy to do things like visually select a block of processes numbers from ps and then paste that block as a space-delimited list on one line to kill them, etc. Terminal.app is fine for most things but can't do stuff like this.

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mi100hael9y ago

    ps aux | grep 'thing' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

devereaux9y ago

Not the same. An option for block selection (say using alt-click) would be a great addition to a terminal.

Someday I get sick of running such long lines I may code that for roxterm.

amyjess9y ago

My own version of that command:

    ps -ef | grep 'thing' | awk '{print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh

On most of my systems, I tend to make a shell script out of it and usually save it to /usr/local/bin/kll (and I don't care about grepping out grep because it doesn't seem to affect anything).

partycoder9y ago

grrr....

    pkill thing

    killall thing

And then there's also pgrep instead of ps | grep

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