Ubuntu – Cannot kill `grep –color=auto` process in terminal

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I use ps aux | grep -i apt to find the process and get:

antonio  19070  0.0  0.0  14424  1096 pts/0    S+   07:41   0:00 grep --color=auto -i apt

Commands such as sudo kill -9 14424 or any other number (it has changed over the last 12 hours) all give me a return of "no such process."

Best Answer

Read the results carefully, you are detecting your grep apt command, which is gone by the time you type the next command..

Either use pgrep apt (man pgrep), or modify your search string so it's no longer a match for the string "apt", e.g. grep '[a]pt'.

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