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I'm currently testing a C++ program on the command line of a linux machine and unfortunately it sometimes gets into infinite loops. Is there a way that, from the command line, I can kill this program?

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pkill myAppName

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get the PID of the process:

  ps -ef | grep <the name here>

then, 

  kill -9 <PID>
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ps aux | grep "name of program" | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | xargs kill -9

is a nice oneliner for this.

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or try killall -9 myAppName.

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ps -aux | grep "name of the program"

will give you the id of the program and then:

kill -9 <id of the programm>

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Use the ps command to learn the PID of your program's process, then kill to terminate the process.

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  • How can I run these commands while my program is still looping?
    – Nosrettap
    Commented Feb 19, 2012 at 21:09
  • You can use control-Z to put your program in the background. But really, you should always have more than one shell when you're doing "real work" on a text-based interface. What if you need to look at one piece of code while you edit another?
    – David Schwartz
    Commented Feb 19, 2012 at 21:37
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CTRL-C is what I was looking for.

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