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Process Interactive Kill is a command line tool that helps to find and kill process.
It works like pkill command but search is interactive.
This tool is still under development
Table of Contents
Features
Pik allows to fuzzy search processes by:
- Name - No prefix is required, just type process name, for example 'firefox'
- Cmd Path - Prefix search with '/', for example '/firefox'
- Arguments - Prefix search with '-' for example '-foo'. Please note that if you want to use this feature in cli you must add
--, for examplepik -- -foo
- Ports - Prefix search with ':' for example ':8080'
- Everywhere - Prefix search with '~' for example '~firefox'
- Select exact process by id - Prefix with '!' for example '!1234'
- Select process family (process + it's children) - Prefix with '@' for example '@1234'
After selecting process you can kill it with Ctrl + X
Installation
Archives of precompiled binaries for pik are available for Linux and macOS.
On Arch Linux
pacman -S pik
On Fedora
sudo dnf copr enable rusty-jack/pik
sudo dnf install pik
On Tumbleweed
sudo zypper install pik
On Gentoo
It is available via lamdness overlay
sudo eselect repository enable lamdness
sudo emaint -r lamdness sync
sudo emerge -av sys-process/pik
With dra
dra download --install jacek-kurlit/pik
If you're a Rust programmer, pik can be installed with cargo.
cargo install pik
Alternatively, one can use cargo binstall to install a pik
binary directly from GitHub:
cargo binstall pik
Configuration
Application configuration
You may set your preferences in config.toml file located in ~/.config/pik directory.
All options are optional, if skipped default values will be used.
You can find default values below
# Size of the viewport
screen_size = { height = 20 } # run pik in 20 lines of the terminal
# screen_size = "fullscreen" # run pik in fullscreen
# Icons require nerd fonts v3
use_icons = false
Key maps
| Key(s) | Action |
|---|---|
Esc | Ctrl + C | Quit |
Ctrl + X | Kill process |
Ctrl + R | Refresh processes list |
Ctrl + F | Details forward |
Ctrl + B | Details backward |
Tab | Shift + Tab | Select next/previous |
Arrow Down | Arrow Up | Select next/previous |
Ctrl + J | Ctrl + K | Select next/previous |
Ctrl + Arrow Down | Ctrl + Arrow Up | Select last/first |
Alt + P | Select parent process |
Alt + F | Select familly processes |
Alt + S | Select siblings processes |
Caveats
- Process name on linux system it is not always exe name also it is limited to 15 chars
- In linux process may appear on list but you are not allowed to get information about ports it uses. In such situations you need to run pik with root privileges
- Currently fuzzy search for args is not supported due to weird behavior - some processes pass all arguments as single causing them to always appear on list. Due to this fact args search is done by contains method
Development
Supported Systems
In theory pik is using coross compliant lib that allows to run it on all major platforms. In pratice I'm using linux and development is performed based on this OS. Pik will probably work on MacOs and Windows but that must be tested by community since I don't own computers with these OS'es. If you are able to test it on windows or macos please create issue to let me know.
Setup
Building
git clone https://github.com/jacek-kurlit/pik
cd pik
cargo build --release
./target/release/pik --version