> Up arrow, edit, enter, until you get it right. I often misread numbers,
> which is especially bad when I run 'ps' or 'top' and find that 12345 is
> the process to kill, so I do it, and nothing (obvious) happens so I
> re-read and its actual PID is 12354. Oops. (What did I kill instead?)
> So typoes aren't a "newbie" thing necessarily.
>
This is an easy fix, 'killall' + the process name. So to kill mplayer,
type 'killall mplayer.'
Be careful that you dont have multiple instances running though!
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