How to kill a process with parameters (arguments)?

Question

linux

Many processes are running, for example:

script.py arg1
script.py arg2
script.py arg3

How to kill a process that was started as script.py arg3 ?

Answer 1

ps aux | grep 'script.py arg3'get pid and kill.
you can think for yourself how to combine it into a one-liner.

Answer 2

The correct way is to provide a method inside the script to save the PID in the form of, for example, writing it to a temporary file with a known name.