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Method

Module OperatingSystem

Library Core

Action

Terminate a running process (or set of process instances of the same executable).

Parameters

Executable (string): The filename of the executable to kill.

For Windows, this is the basename (e.g. "notepad.exe").

For Linux it can be the basename (e.g. "firefox") or the full path (e.g. "/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox").

Return values

Killed (int): The number of processes successfully killed.

Failed (int): The number of processes that could not be killed.

Example

 OperatingSystem.KillProcesses(Executable:"notepad.exe");

 OperatingSystem.KillProcesses(Executable:"/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox");

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