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Kill program Mac OSX terminal can sometimes be necessary
Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac. To download apps from the Mac App Store, you need a Mac with OS X 10.6.6 or later. How to find background tasks on Mac: View apps with Activity Monitor. This will then pop out another window allowing you to view detailed information about the background app or process. Each process running in Microsoft Windows is assigned a unique decimal number called the process ID (PID). This number is used to specify the process when attaching a debugger to it. You can determine the PID for a given app using Task Manager, the tasklist command, the TList utility, or the debugger.
Even though OS X is a pleasure to work with, we have all had a program or process freeze up. It won’t quit by using “Force quit”. What do you do now? Fortunately, this can be solved quite easily. To kill program Mac OS X terminal on Leopard / Snow leopard / Lion do the following commands:
Get the ID of the program
Kill the program
This will give you the number of the processes found (if any). Now just close them with this command
This Bundle ID was automatically generated in Step 3 of creating an app build for the Apple App Store. Once your app has been approved by Apple, you cannot change your app's Bundle ID. If you later want to update an existing APNs certificate, you will need to find the APNs certificate corresponding to your app’s Bundle ID and create a new.
So, for example to kill my activity monitor program
Now the offending program will shut down immediately, no matter what it was doing. This is, however, a last resort. You will lose any unsaved changes.
What happens behind the scenes when you kill the program is a bit different from regular operations. Normally, the operating system asks the program nicely to go away. With the above kill command, it simply shuts it down immediately without asking or telling it anything. There you go. Gone.
Has this post got you interested? Would you like to learn how to do more interesting stuff in OS X’s terminal , than just kill a program. Then read these 10 commands. Even more interested? The OS X terminal is built on top of bash, and you can read more about it in this tutorial.
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Close unresponsive apps and processes
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When your system is acting sluggish or simply not responding, an app or process may be the source of the problem. You can use Activity Monitor to locate the troublesome app or process and force it to quit.
See how much energy your Mac is using
You can find out how much energy your Mac is using, and see which apps or processes are using the most energy.
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See real-time CPU, network, or disk status in the Dock
It’s easy to keep an eye on your system status without even looking at the Activity Monitor window—you can monitor your CPU, network, or disk usage as a live graph right in the Dock.
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To browse the Activity Monitor User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page.