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

To kill a process by name I use the following

ps aux | grep "search-term" | grep -v grep | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 2 | xargs kill -9

The tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 2 is same as awk '{print $2}'. tr supressess the tab spaces into single space and cut is provided with as the delimiter and the second column is requested. The second column in the ps aux output is the process id.