Making Life Easy With Pgrep & Pkill

When I was a young Unix wannabe and whenever I would need to kill a process I would go through this rigmarole.

• Look up the process id with ps -elf | grep
• Kill the process with kill

Nowadays on Fedora I do the same thing except that you know have to send kill the signal, which for my purposes is usually 9.

Now instead of doing all of that I simply type

pgrep

pkill

This is cleaner since it shows all the app's process ids and I do not need to filter.