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title: Killing programs in mac or linux
tags:
    - linux
    - bash
categories: []
date: 2023-01-01 05:30:35
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To kill all instances of an application us the command **killall**

It can be tedious to find all the processes you are trying to kill based on process id. There is a cool little command that can do the work for you, killall.

You can kill all instances of a misbehaving program:

> $sudo killall discord

Or you can kill using wild cards:

> $sudo killall node\*

If you want to check what you will kill you can use the command:

> $ps aux | grep node\*