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Mateusz Jarzyna
Mateusz Jarzyna

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fkill - (imo) best way to kill processes // Cool GitHub projects

I will start with the biggest disadvantage of this app - fkill is written in JS using Node.js. To be clear - JS is not my enemy, I'm not using that stack, so I had to install npm and so on.

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Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.


fkill


Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

Build Status

Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Install

$ npm install --global fkill-cli 

Usage

$ fkill --help Usage $ fkill [<pid|name> …] Options --force -f Force kill --verbose -v Show process arguments --silent -s Silently kill and always exit with code 0 Examples $ fkill 1337 $ fkill safari $ fkill :8080 $ fkill 1337 safari :8080 $ fkill To kill a port, prefix it with a colon. For example: :8080. Run without arguments to use the interactive interface. In interactive mode, 🚦n% indicates high CPU usage and 🐏n% indicates high memory usage. The process name is case insensitive. 

Interactive UI

Run fkill without arguments to launch the interactive UI.

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Maintainers




Install

npm install --global fkill-cli 

Features

  • kill process by pid - fkill 1337 (nothing fancy)
  • kill process by name - fkill firefox (like killall)
  • kill process by port - fkill :8080 - will kill process which uses port 8080, super cool feature
  • interactive mode - fkill - shows all processes, search bar, ports used by each process, memory usage and CPU usage
  • -f to force kill

fkill

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