Killall and Google Chrome

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Jaytron


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Why can't I get kill Chrome for the life of me on a Mac? I've tried:

killall -9 Google Chrome
killall -9 Chrome
killall -9 chrome
killall -9 google-chrome
etc etc etc

All I ever get is "No matching processes found" What's going on here?
 
McYukon

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In unix you have to escape spaces with the \ letter.
killall -9 Google\ Chrome
 
Aptmunich

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Plus remember that Chrome has one process per tab, so you may want to run the "top" command first, so you can find the exact name of the processes (although I think the tab processes are killed automatically if the main process is killed).
 
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Aptmunich said:
Plus remember that Chrome has one process per tab, so you may want to run the "top" command first, so you can find the exact name of the processes (although I think the tab processes are killed automatically if the main process is killed).
Click to expand...

Yep, "killall Google\ Chrome" kills all PIDs associated with the application.
 

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