Bash process check kill

Checking and Killing Processes in Bash

This article introduces how to check and kill processes in Bash language on Linux computer and server command lines.

Shou Arisaka
1 min read
Oct 9, 2025

This article introduces how to check and kill processes in Bash language on Linux computer and server command lines.

# confirm
ps aux | grep firefox

#  kill
kill 1234
sudo killall autokey
kill -9 <pid>

Like this, check with the ps command and kill with the kill command.

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Shou Arisaka Oct 9, 2025

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