How to kill all processes matching a name?

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Say I want to kill every process containing the word amarok. I can print out the commands I want to execute. But how do I actually make the shell execute them. ie.

ps aux | grep -ie amarok | awk '{print "kill -9 " $2}'
Output:
kill -9 3052
kill -9 3071
kill -9 3076
kill -9 3077
kill -9 3079
kill -9 3080
kill -9 3082
kill -9 3083
kill -9 3084
kill -9 3085
kill -9 3086
kill -9 3087
kill -9 3088
kill -9 3089
kill -9 4031
kill shell command-line
11 Answers

If you're using cygwin or some minimal shell that lacks killall you can just use this script:

killall.sh - Kill by process name.

#/bin/bash
ps -W | grep "$1" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill --

Usage:

$ killall <process name>
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