Ctrl + C
Ctrl + C is a the standard *nix way of signaling a process to abort.
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Ctrl + C is a the standard *nix way of signaling a process to abort.
Try Ctrl + C. Also, Ctrl + Z might help if you want to suspend a process.
For further information, man kill.
If you're curious about the difference between suspend and terminate, this answer is a good starting point; the TL;DR version is, a suspended process can be resumed later and its execution can continue. A terminated (and killed) process will be gone.
I am a developer so I am using the terminal a lot.
I used to be able to kill process while running using ctrl+C like in any linux terminal.
Recently it seems like I cannot do it and I need to use Fcn+Cntrl+C.
I looked over the web, people say it's may ctrl+"." or something else. Also looked at the keyboard shortcuts setting. Cannot find anything.
With connected keyboard the situation is worst and even Fn+Cntrl+C does not work
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If you're trying to kill -9 it, you have the correct PID, and nothing happens, then you don't have permissions to kill the process.
Solution:
$ sudo kill -9 PID
Okay, sure enough Mac OS/X does give an error message for this case:
$ kill -9 196
-bash: kill: (196) - Operation not permitted
So, if you're not getting an error message, you somehow aren't getting the right PID.
Some cases you might want to kill all the process running in a specific port. For example, if I am running a node app on 3000 port and I want to kill that and start a new one; then I found this command useful.
Find the process IDs running on TCP port 3000 and kill it
kill -9 `lsof -i TCP:3000 | awk '/LISTEN/{print $2}'`
You can use AppleScript to tell the application to quit:
osascript -e 'quit app "Slack"'
this will tell the application to quit and will start all the save and cleanup tasks. Or you can send the TERM signal with pkill but it could be that the application will not shut down cleanly
pkill -x Slack
No, you do not need to know its PID.
You can use:
pkill -x Slack
Or:
killall Slack
Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to its particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page
killall kills by process name (which is definitively not 77439 and most probably also not Mathematica). You can use kill 77439 or (if this fails) kill -9 77439 instead (but if the process is really stuck, only a reboot will solve the problem).
Also, due the the way sending/processing of signals (like kill -9) works in Unix/OS X, there are situations where a process will be unkillable. One typical example for this is if a process gets stuck while accessing some external device and never actually gets control back. In such situations a reboot is the only way to get rid of the process.
Sometimes killing the parental process can get rid of an otherwise unkillable process. Unfortunately, if the parental process is PID 0 or 1 (launchd) you are pretty screwed.
Find the parental process in Activity Monitor.
just hit control ^ + C. make sure you hit Control not Command (⌘), that cot me many times :)
Under the view menu, there is an option to display integrated Terminal. This opens a Unix shell window at bottom of VScode window. You should be able to kill whatever process is causing you problems.