Find a process by name and kill it

Posted by Fabiano PS on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Fabiano PS
Published on 2011-02-03T22:33:03Z Indexed on 2011/02/03 23:28 UTC
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So, I want to send a kill to a process, I know it's name

ps -ef | grep '_rails master'
root      2388     1  0 19:46 ?        00:00:04 unicorn_rails master -c /web/hero/config/unicorn.rb -E production -D                   
root      2582  2172  0 20:28 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto _rails master

It is unicorn_rails master [..] how do I kill it?

I tried so far: sed and expr. But cant pass it as param to kill

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