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No, you do not need to know its PID.



You can use:



pkill Slack


Or:



killall Slack



Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page






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    You can install htop then click on the Slack process line and type k9






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      I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run



      ps -e | grep -i slack


      To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):



      PID TTY TIME CMD
      649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash


      That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:



      kill -9 649


      Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps.






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        Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo would target processes named foo, but would also target processes named foobar. This is because it uses regular expressions.



        If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x flag. For example, pkill -x foo. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.






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          No, you do not need to know its PID.



          You can use:



          pkill Slack


          Or:



          killall Slack



          Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page






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            No, you do not need to know its PID.



            You can use:



            pkill Slack


            Or:



            killall Slack



            Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page






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              No, you do not need to know its PID.



              You can use:



              pkill Slack


              Or:



              killall Slack



              Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page






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              No, you do not need to know its PID.



              You can use:



              pkill Slack


              Or:



              killall Slack



              Note: Be sure to read the manual page for whichever command you choose to use, in order to see the various options available to the command, as may be relevant to is particular usage. In Terminal type e.g. man pkill and press enter, or just type the command and right-click on it, then select: Open man Page







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                          I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run



                          ps -e | grep -i slack


                          To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):



                          PID TTY TIME CMD
                          649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash


                          That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:



                          kill -9 649


                          Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps.






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                            I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run



                            ps -e | grep -i slack


                            To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):



                            PID TTY TIME CMD
                            649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash


                            That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:



                            kill -9 649


                            Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps.






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                              I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run



                              ps -e | grep -i slack


                              To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):



                              PID TTY TIME CMD
                              649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash


                              That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:



                              kill -9 649


                              Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps.






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                              I'm not sure for Slack, but some Applications will run multiple Processes and you may want to kill just one (I find I often need to do this with iTunes, for example). In that case, you can run



                              ps -e | grep -i slack


                              To find all Processes with case-insensitive "slack" in the name. The output should look like (without the header):



                              PID TTY TIME CMD
                              649 pts/1 00:00:00 bash


                              That first column will be your PID. You can then use that to kill specifically that process:



                              kill -9 649


                              Replacing 649 with your PID you found from calling ps.







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                                  Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo would target processes named foo, but would also target processes named foobar. This is because it uses regular expressions.



                                  If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x flag. For example, pkill -x foo. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.






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                                    Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo would target processes named foo, but would also target processes named foobar. This is because it uses regular expressions.



                                    If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x flag. For example, pkill -x foo. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.






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                                      Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo would target processes named foo, but would also target processes named foobar. This is because it uses regular expressions.



                                      If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x flag. For example, pkill -x foo. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.






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                                      Since I don't yet have the reputation to comment, I'm saying this as a separate answer. pkill without any flags does not match a specific process! For example, running pkill foo would target processes named foo, but would also target processes named foobar. This is because it uses regular expressions.



                                      If you wish to kill a specific process, you can pass it the -x flag. For example, pkill -x foo. This will use exact names instead of regular expressions.







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