Command Line To Force Quit An App On Mac

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Quit applications from the command line Authored by: Han Solo on Jun 25, '04 11:14:51PM Why not simply get the PID with either top or ps -cx then type kill -QUIT PID? To use it, make sure the frozen app is active and press and hold Command-Option-Shift-Escape (you'll notice that this is simply the Force Quit Window shortcut with the Shift key modifier thrown in). As with other force quit methods, the active application will immediately be force quit. Quit current app. You can use Command + Option + Shift + Escape to force the currently active app to quit, just hold the sequence down for a few seconds. Use the Dock. Control-Option-click (Ctrl-Alt-Click) an app icon on the Dock and you should see the Force Quit option appear, tap it to Force Quit the app. While in the app you want to quit, hold down Shift while you tap on the. Force An App To Quit From The Terminal. If you’re someone who enjoys getting tasks done from the Terminal, you’d be glad to know that you can force close apps as well from your favorite command line editor. There’s a command you can run from the Terminal to kill any running app on your Mac.

To quit (close) a Mac app normally, choose Quit from the app's menu in the menu bar, or press Command (⌘)-Q. If the app doesn't quit, follow these steps to force the app to quit.

How to force an app to quit

  1. Press these three keys together: Option, Command, and Esc (Escape). This is similar to pressing Control-Alt-Delete on a PC. Or choose Force Quit from the Apple () menu in the upper-left corner of your screen.
  2. Select the app in the Force Quit window, then click Force Quit.

Learn more

  • You can also force the Finder to quit, if it stops responding. Select Finder in the Force Quit window, then click Relaunch.
  • If none of your apps are responding, you can force your Mac to restart.
  • You can also force an app to close on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
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How does this compare to killall -HUP foo?
Genuinely curious :)

It quits it softly, like when you hit the quit menu option
Any idea how to get this to work remotely, where this is of real value? It used to work, but now it fails.

Read this post on the DEVONtechnologies for an example of why killall (at least with a SIGTERM signal) isn't recommended for quitting DEVONthink; the AppleScript method is suggested instead so the database is . Need to find out whether using SIGHUP (or some other signal besides SIGTERM) with killall would be equivalent since it's more convenient.

I didn't make an sh script after reading your advice, which works like a treat..my example was to quit MacBiff, which (very) occasionally freezes in the menubar, when the computer is overworked, and lots of communications wizzing aorund, downloads etc..mail testing.
You can't use have the 'forcequit gui' for MaBiff, and would have to find its pid in process, then quit, Your idea works in the flash of flash.
John P.

For zsh users, here is a simpler approach as a function: I also have a similar 'relaunch' function: Place both code snippets in your .zshrc and you are set.
You can pass multiple applications as arguments, but remember to escape white spaces if the application name has multiple words: or
There was a virtually identical hint a few days ago (and I posted a virtually identical script in one of the comments there). I guess it's a generally useful thing :-)

BTW, you don't need the before the osascript, since you are already redirecting osascript's standard input with the

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You may be interested in my 'appswitch' utility (http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/) - it quits applications efficiently among other features. There you can find my 'open' replacement, 'launch', as well.

Ahh.. thanks for that appswitch reminder, Nicholas. It (and launch) are already installed. :-)
Mac osx ssd upgrade superduper app. Looks like appswitch is a good substitute for killall to use in the /usr/libexec/upsshutdown script for 'safe-quitting' apps like DEVONthink.

Why not simply get the PID with either Command Line To Force Quit An App On Mac

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top or ps -cx

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then type kill -QUIT PID ?

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If another user left something running via FUS, you'll want to type ps -cxa or ps -cx -U username , then preface the above kill command with sudo. Or better, follow this hint and subsequent comments to pause and resume from the CLI programs run by other users.

> Why not simply get the PID with either top or ps -cx then type kill -QUIT PID ?
Because typing 'quit mail' is much much easier. And applescript quit's an app cleanly, whereas the kill command may not.

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>Why not simply get the PID with either top or ps -cx then type kill -QUIT PID ?
Because surreptitiously leaving Bittorrent clients uploading in the background on your co-worker's machines for days on end is pointless if you're just going to force quit and terminate them without them being able to report your upload ratio to the tracker.
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