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Python script to kill a process by its name
import os, signal
def check_kill_process(pstring):
for line in os.popen("ps ax | grep " + pstring + " | grep -v grep"):
fields = line.split()
pid = fields[0]
os.kill(int(pid), signal.SIGKILL)
@scriptedp0ison
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or you could just import the subprocess module, have the user enter a string based input, convert it to int, then via the sys module [ sys.stdin.readline()] or raw_input depending on the version of python, then create a variable to store the input with the 'killall' command, through the subprocess.call() function

@ryancasler
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Where do you list the name of the process you want to kill?!?!?! OMG....I've been searching for an hour!!!!

@ageron
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ageron commented Jan 16, 2019

You can use psutil's process_iter() to list processes, and use each process's name() and cmdline() method to get its name and command line arguments.
For example, this gist implements a few functions that list processes by name or by filtering on their command line arguments.

@datalifenyc
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@marcoagner Perfect solution for my selenium issue with driver.quit() not terminating chromedriver.

macOS: Catalina  
Python: 3.7.4
ChromeDriver: 80.0.3987.106

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