sindresorhus/fkill-cli

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

fkill-cli is a cross-platform command-line tool for killing processes by PID, name, or port, with an interactive fuzzy-search UI. It is built in JavaScript on Node.js and distributed via npm.

Use cases

• kill a process by pid from the terminal
• kill a process by name like safari
• kill whatever is listening on port 8080
• force kill unresponsive processes
• interactively search and kill processes with fuzzy matching
• cross-platform alternative to killall and taskkill

When to choose

• you want a friendly, cross-platform way to kill processes from the terminal
• you need to kill processes by name or port, not just PID
• you prefer an interactive fuzzy-search process picker

When to avoid

• you need fine-grained signal control beyond force kill and timeouts
• you only work on Unix and are happy with the built-in kill/pkill commands
• you need to kill processes programmatically inside a script - use the fkill API package instead

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform windows cli cross-platform process-management kill-processes fuzzy-search interactive-ui port-killing command-line macos linux nodejs

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