If I begin a process and background it in a terminal window (say ping google.com &
), I can kill it using kill %1
(assuming it is job 1).
However if I open another terminal window (or tab) the backgrounded process is not listed under jobs
and cannot be killed directly using kill
.
Is it possible to kill this process from another terminal window or tab?
Note: I am using the Xfce Terminal Emulator 0.4.3 and bash (although if a solution exists in another common shell but not bash I am open to that as well)
Best Answer
Yes, all you need to know is the process id (PID) of the process. You can find this with the
ps
command, or thepidof
command.Should work from any other shell. If it doesn't, you can use ps and grep for ping.