#Terminal

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

Use the classic ps aux command to list every process on the system with owner, CPU, memory, and command columns.

Terminate a specific process by PID: first with a plain kill (SIGTERM), then with kill -9 (SIGKILL) only if it refuses to exit.

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

caffeinate holds sleep off while a command runs, or for a fixed number of seconds.

Point macOS screen captures at any folder you choose instead of the desktop.

Use pgrep -a to look up the process ID (PID) of any running program by name and see its full command line.

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

Stop and start a Homebrew-managed background service in one step so config changes take effect.

Use pkill to send a termination signal to every process whose name matches a pattern — no PID lookup needed.

See every internal and external disk, its partitions, and its /Volumes name from the terminal with one command.

Find which file contains a specific phrase — with file name and line number — using grep's recursive search.