Posts categorized in ‘shell’ (2)

(Or, what if you can’t just click the bad thing with the skull until it dies?) Sometimes you need to kill something in Linux. Sometimes it makes sense to use some sort interactive process monitor, like the process table in Plasma’s System Monitor, or top or htop or bottom or some other sort of top.1 (Or, if you’re in an X11 environment rather than a Wayland one, you could use xkill.

In case it’s useful, a quick Bash shell function which takes a single argument (a web address that is processable by youtube-dl) and returns the best quality mp4 version (in case you need to deal with a device that doesn’t like modern video encodings/containers), with the download time as the file’s modification time timestamp (useful if you have a directory of downloaded videos and want to quickly see the last N files you downloaded, rather than the files being sorted by upload time).