Kill a Running Process by its Name

Question

When running a kill command by its name in a Linux RT ARM version:

kill -9 'pidof program'

I have the error

kill: invalid number 'pidof myprogram'

what is wrong in here? how can i know which version of kill?

Answer 1

You are using the wrong quote ', use ` instead.

kill -9 `pidof program`

Answer 2

or you can use command 'pkill'

pkill program

pkill -9 program