macOS Guide – Jesse Russell

How to Kill Processes on Linux and macOS

List processes to find a certain PID:

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Kill a process by its PID with kill:

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Kill all processes by a name with killall:

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Kill all processes by a name with pkill:

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Kill all processes or a certain process for the specified user:

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Kill all processes with a wildcard:

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Enter these commands to display hidden files in macOS:

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Enter these commands to hide hidden files again:

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Enter the following command to set a file or folder as hidden:

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Enter the following command to set a file or folder as not hidden:

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