Kill a Process by Process Name from Ubuntu Command Line

There are a number of ways to kill a process if you know the name of the process. Here’s a couple different ways you can accomplish this. We are going to assume that the process we are trying to kill is named Unreal

kill $(pgrep Unreal)
killall -v Unreal
pkill Unreal
kill `ps -ef | grep Unreal | grep -v grep | awk ‘{print $2}’`
These techniques can be useful in shell scripts, where you wouldn’t know the process ID and would need to restart or kill a process.

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