#Processes

Send a normal termination signal to one specific process, and escalate to a forced kill only if it refuses to quit.

Use pgrep -fl to instantly look up the PID of any running macOS process by matching its name or command line.

Force-quit a hung macOS application by name from the terminal using killall, then relaunch it in one more command.

Dump the complete process list and filter it for a keyword in one line.

End an unresponsive application from Command Prompt using taskkill by image name or PID.

Check if a program is running and get its process ID using tasklist with findstr or the /FI filter.

Print a single top-style report sorted by CPU instead of watching a live updating screen.

Signal every process whose name matches a pattern in one command, with an optional custom signal.

Rank running processes by working-set memory and CPU time in one PowerShell pipeline.

Find the process listening on a TCP port with Get-NetTCPConnection, then stop it with Stop-Process.

Report exactly how many kilobytes of physical memory a single process holds, without Activity Monitor.

Rank running processes by CPU time using Get-Process and Sort-Object.