How Do I Close a Program from the Terminal
Suppose for Example Vlc Media Player Is Running and Some Directory Is Also Opened in File Browser. Now I Want to Close Either the File Browser or Vlc. One Way...
Suppose for example vlc media player is running and some directory is also opened in file browser. Now I want to close either the file browser or vlc.
One way can be to just click on the cross button on the top left hand corner, but how can I do this using terminal commands?
1 Answer
Now every file is handled by another program say gedit and folders the same, so to kill [ the program handling that file or folder ] we can use two methods:
The program name with:
pkill <name_of_program>use of program
PID(process id)- find the
PIDwithpgrep <name_of_program>, then - kill it with
kill <PID>
- find the
Information:
man pkill
man kill
Note: When closed this way any unsaved changes will be lost.
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