Operating systems Wars!

[Autumnlicious]

Unless of course the program has a different item for its command field or is being run by a common interpreter.

When you administrate large clusters, you learn that the lowest common denominator works every time. Much better to type a few more characters in your Fabric scripts.

For any item in the process stat (replace the $ITEM placeholder with what your looking for)

Code:

ps ax | grep $ITEM | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9

Works on old and new Linux and BSD based OS that I've encountered. I've encountered quite a few installs without pkill (not that pkill helps for Python scripts unless you use '-f' for glob matching). Should work on ancient Unix installs given that awk, ps and xargs are very old programs.