Kill a Process by name insist of PID

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Kill a Process by name insist of PID

How do you kill Word X, Excel X, and PowerPoint X by name. By name because the PID is not going to be the same on every machine.

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G4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

G4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

Posted on Jan 20, 2007 9:17 AM

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Answer 1

Zerwas

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Jan 20, 2007 9:34 AM in response to Dmcrory

killall Word. Or use kill `ps -auxc | awk '/Word/ ''{print $2}'`, this returned the pid an kill Word.

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Answer 2

Dmcrory Author

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Jan 20, 2007 10:13 AM in response to Zerwas

These are the only 2 processes related to office when typing :

ps -auxc

root 964 3.0 5.6 732380 58528 ?? S 10:04AM 0:07.31 Microsoft Word
root 965 0.0 2.0 458668 20920 ?? S 10:04AM 0:00.50 Microsoft Database Daemon

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I type:
killall Microsoft Word

I get

No matching processes were found
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Why and how do I fix it

G4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

G4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

G4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

G4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.3.5)

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Answer 3

Zerwas

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Jan 20, 2007 10:21 AM in response to Dmcrory

Then use killall "Microsoft Word" If Word started as root use sudo killall

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