How do I kill this tomcat process in Terminal?

Question

Using ps -ef | grep tomcat I found a tomcat server that is running. I tried kill -9 {id} but it returns \"No such process.\" What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

ps -ef | grep tomcat | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

https://gist.github.com/nrshrivatsan/1d2ea4fcdcb9d1857076

Part 1

ps -ef | grep tomcat => Get all processes with tomcat grep

Part 2

Once we have process details, we pipe it into the part 2 of the script

awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 => Get the second column [Process id] and kill them with -9 option

Hope this helps.