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[โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

[esc]: !sudo kill -9 $(pgrep vim)

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    You just summed up my last 30 years of Linux. To be completely honest I knew vaguely of it but I've never used it before. My first inclination was to use killall, but something about its force command isn't quite -9 and it refused to terminate the parent application.

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