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• drewbitt
  Compared to the popular killport https://proc-cli.com/posts/proc-vs-lsof-fuser-killport-fkill...
• CodesInChaos
  Why do you use commas to separate multiple targets, instead of multiple arguments?
• CodesInChaos
  Claude is surprisingly bad at killing processes. Had several "Whoops, my process killer matched itself and died before its victims" notifications already.

  • hkudale
    true. I worked on multi process app UI and engine were 2 different processes with similar names. Without engine UI can't work and claude was almost always killing engine (thinking its stale UI from prev sessions) before testing UI. Really bad. I haven't tried this specific tool yet but ended up writing a global instruction for Claude to keep track of processes it starts in some tracking file so engine started by me would not be killed

    • daynthelife
      I just set a hard permission deny on any command matching `\bpgrep\b.\s+(-\wf|--full)\s+"[^\]"]+"` with denial reason "It looks like you are trying to identify a running process via a command like `pgrep -f "my-command --my-args"`. This will match the spawned shell process itself, which is likely unintended. Use instead e.g. `pgrep -f "[m]y-command --my-args"`. If this was a false positive, either embed your code in a temp script, or (preferred) get and confirm the target pid(s) by calling pgrep directly (this auto-deny only fires if characters precede the pgrep call) and then run your subsequent code on the pid(s)."

      Haven't had issues since then.