Kill a Running Process by its Name

Question

When running a kill command by its name in a Linux RT ARM version:

kill -9 'pidof program'

I have the error

kill: invalid number 'pidof myprogram'

what is wrong in here? how can i know which version of kill?

The source you copied that line from uses backquotes (left of `1` on my keyboard), not normal apostrophes. — jasonharper, Sep 20 '17 at 03:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 20 '17 at 03:58

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You are using the wrong quote ', use ` instead.

kill -9 `pidof program`

edited Sep 20 '17 at 03:58

Nisse Engström

answered Sep 20 '17 at 03:55

hailinzeng

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '17 at 03:55

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or you can use command 'pkill'

pkill program

pkill -9 program

answered Sep 20 '17 at 03:55

Tony Damon

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