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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?
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I use awk instead of cut cause I can remember the syntax better.
ps aux | grep zoom | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
You can get rid of those
greps, btw:Or just use
pgrep.The greps were much more legible that this concoction ๐
But I second the use of pgrep. ๐
Better yet, just
killall zoom.grep is everywhere, pgrep is not
May I interest you in the command
killall? ๐The thing with killall is I can't see what it's going to do first. With the greps, I can look first, kill second.
True, then I would personally run
pgrepfirst, thenkillall. ๐