# How to kill processes by it's name?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-kill-processes-by-its-name/162157>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 6, 2009, 10:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-kill-processes-by-its-name/162157 "2009-03-06T10:18:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jun\_YSKim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@Jun\_YSKim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jun_YSKim)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 10:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-kill-processes-by-its-name/162157/1 "2009-03-06T10:18:05Z")

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hi forks…

as I mentioned it by mail title, How I can kill processes by it’s name?

Are there some libraries for this function in ruby?

thanks for all.

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**Author:** ![Jun\_YSKim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@Jun\_YSKim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jun_YSKim)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-kill-processes-by-its-name/162157/2 "2009-03-06T11:50:31Z")

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On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Jun Y. Kim [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> hi forks…
> 
> as I mentioned it by mail title, How I can kill processes by it’s name?
> 
> Are there some libraries for this function in ruby?
> 
> thanks for all.

I know it’s not exactly what you’re looking for but you could use a  
system call to pkill

Andrew T.  
[http://ramblingsonrails.com](http://ramblingsonrails.com)  
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtimberlake](http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtimberlake)

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