Here’s a bash script that I wrote that allows you specify which process of the processname’s you want to kill.

you run it like so: “script.sh processname filtername”

This would kill all processname’s that match filtername.

Here is script.sh:

#!/bin/bash
lookup=$1
finelookup=$2

PIDs=”$(pgrep -l $lookup | tr ‘ ‘ ‘=’ | awk -F= ‘{print $1}’)”

for i in ${PIDs} ; do
toKill=”$(ps -ef | grep $i | grep $finelookup)”
if [ "$toKill" != "" ]; then
kill -9 $i
fi
done