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Python script to kill a process by its name
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| 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) |
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.
@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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Where do you list the name of the process you want to kill?!?!?! OMG....I've been searching for an hour!!!!