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Killing all instances of Chrome on the command-line?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 2026180586 views
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Problem

In some cases killing a single tab/process doesn't do it and I need to close Chrome entirely. Since Chrome has multiple processes, how can I close all of them at once? I know that... returns all the pids. What is a trick that would allow me to close all of them by feeding them to another command or merging them to a CSV file or something?

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Try using pkill(1).

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