Killing a Perl process in Linux

Question

I started a perl process that runs a script and I want to end it, but not the rest of perl scripts. How do I target it and not the rest?

Seriously ? It was easier to write this than to look it up ? — user9517, Mar 06 '17 at 13:44

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '17 at 13:41

Just kill it by its process id (PID), like any other linux process:

$ kill 12345

If you don't know the PID, you can figure it out with ps:

$ ps -ef | grep myperlscript
user  3936  3904  0 Feb02 ?        01:13:31 /usr/bin/perl ...

The PID is the second value in each line of output, 3936 in this example.

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