Search and Kill Processes

The other day I was working on getting a Vagrant box set up. I ran into an issue where I couldn’t destroy the box and couldn’t find out why. I ended up needing to kill all the Vagrant processes that were running on my machine.

I learned that it’s not exactly the easiest to search for a process and kill it, so I decided to make a little bash script that would let me search all the processes for a string. This would then return an array of process IDs that I could loop through, and kill, one by one.

Caution: Beware what processes you are killing, you could get undesired results.