OSX Terminal: How to kill all processes with the same name

Question

Getting the following output from running this:

ps aux | grep Python

Output:

user_name  84487   0.0  0.0        0      0   ??  Z    12:15PM   0:00.00 (Python)

user_name  84535   0.0  0.0        0      0   ??  Z    12:16PM   0:00.00 (Python)

I want to terminate all Python processes currently running on a machine....

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Answer 1

use pkill, with the -f option.

pkill -f python

If you don't have pkill pre-installed (some osx's don't...), try proctools.

OSX Terminal: How to kill all processes with the same name

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