kill stubborn processes
Posted in Mac OS X, Unix on January 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
if you’re having difficulty killing recalcitrant jobs or programs, try this short but sweet script. note that this will even work for the mac; just use the terminal.app. i find this to be even faster than the apple-option-esc shortcut. #!/bin/sh #end recalcitrant processes ID=$1 kill -9 `ps ax | grep -i “$ID” | awk ‘{print […]