Last Updated on June 4, 2023
This article spotlights alternative tools to kill.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
| Alternatives to kill | |
|---|---|
| fkill | Kill processes quick and easy |
| gkill | Interactive process killer written in Go |
| epkill | procps utilities with environment constraints |
| pkill | Kills a given program name |
| killport | Kills processes listening on specific ports |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to kill? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // find // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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How about killport? It’s a useful Rust-based tool
Thanks, I’ve added killport.