Here is a tiny script that can be usefull to terminate (kill -9) all the programs which contain a certain string (i.e.: kill all the running copies of ping).

#!/bin/bash

for foo in `ps aux | grep $1 | awk '{print $2}'`;  do kill -9 $foo; done

Just run: matar <program name> and that’s it. They are all gone.

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