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

will list all your currently running processes

| grep tomcat

will pass the output to grep and look for instances of tomcat. Since the grep is a process itself, it is returned from your command. However, your output shows no processes of Tomcat running.