How to kill all processes run by a user on Linux

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> In this tutorial, I will show how to kill all running processes launched by a user at once</h2> <br /> With the help of few command chain, you can kill running process of desired "user" in LINUX<br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Commands like :<b> ps, grep , awk, sudo, kill, pgrep, pkill, killall </b></h3> <br /> <b>First method </b><br /> The first method is to feed kill command with a list of process IDs generated by ps command.<br /> <br /> <span style="color: blue;">$ ps -ef | grep amit | awk '{ print $2 }' | sudo xargs kill -9</span><br /> <br /> <b>Second Method</b><br /> <br /> A more convenient way to look up processes based on user name is to use pgrep.<br /> <br /> <span style="color: blue;">$ pgrep -u amit | sudo xargs kill -9</span><br /> <br /> <b>Third Method </b><br /> <br /> pkill can streamlines the whole process of looking up processes by user, and sending them signals. A default signal sent by pkill is SIGTERM. Using pkill, you can kill all processes by owner easily.<br /> <br /> <span style="color: blue;">$ sudo pkill -u amit</span><br /> <br /> <b>Four Method </b><br /> <br /> killall is very similar to pkill in terms of killing processes by user name.<br /> <br /> <span style="color: blue;">$ sudo killall -u amit</span></div>

How to kill all processes run by a user on Linux

In this tutorial, I will show how to kill all running processes launched by a user at once With the help of few command chain, you can k...

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